On 9/26/2019 7:42 PM, 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.
This does seem like a bug... > 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 > > One oddity is that ssh-agent is listed as a subprocess of sleep ...but this isn't a bug. ssh-agent forks, and then the parent execs the command. Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
