On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 03:33:56PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >Processes that attempt to shed their controlling terminal do so well enough >for the tty to show as ? in ps output, but they still keep the console >window they were launched from open, after all other processes using it have >exited. > >This is particularly annoying with ssh-agent - if I exit the shell in the >terminal that launched it, that terminal becomes a zombie, hanging around >for no purpose. If I close that window using the Windows close box, the >ssh-agent is killed. > >I'm not an expert in the ways of Unix ttys. Can anyone help me understand >where the problem lies?
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