From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: Tim Adye <T.J.Adye@rl.ac.uk>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ssh-agent doesn't die
Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191103190052.GI3372@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <319e26c0-32f0-40b7-2137-c7de170a3486@rl.ac.uk>
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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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-03 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-27 0:34 Tim Adye
2019-09-27 2:43 ` Norton Allen
2019-09-27 5:38 ` Ken Brown
2019-09-27 14:12 ` Norton Allen
2019-09-27 14:27 ` Ken Brown
2019-09-27 15:09 ` Vanda Vodkamilkevich
2019-09-27 23:18 ` Ken Brown
2019-09-27 23:59 ` Norton Allen
[not found] ` <185c5774-dd8b-5488-b818-4cec5a24bf2d@cornell.edu>
2019-10-04 14:27 ` Ken Brown
2019-10-04 20:13 ` Ken Brown
2019-11-03 19:01 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2019-11-04 11:49 ` Tim Adye
2019-11-04 14:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
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