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 -- Corinna Vinschen Cygwin Maintainer
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