ssh-agent doesn't die
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Nov 3 19:01:00 GMT 2019
On Sep 27 00:42, Tim Adye wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have noticed a (new?) problem with using ssh-agent to start a session, eg.
> with
>
> ssh-agent xterm &
>
> When the xterm (or whatever) command completes, the ssh-agent process is
> still left running in the background. It should stop once its subprocess is
> done.
>
> As a simple test example, consider:
>
> /bin/ssh-agent /bin/sleep 10
>
> While the sleep is still running, ps shows:
>
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 1694 1693 1694 1576 ? 22534 00:01:10
> /usr/bin/ssh-agent
> 1653 1 1653 11740 cons1 22534 00:00:37
> /usr/bin/bash
> 1693 1653 1693 1552 cons1 22534 00:01:10
> /usr/bin/sleep
> [...]
> Once the sleep finishes, ps shows:
>
> PID PPID PGID WINPID TTY UID STIME COMMAND
> 1694 1693 1694 1576 ? 22534 00:01:10
> /usr/bin/ssh-agent
> 1653 1 1653 11740 cons1 22534 00:00:37
> /usr/bin/bash
>
> ie. ssh-agent is still running, though its PPID no longer exists.
I pushed a patch and created new developer snapshots. Please test the
latest from https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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