On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 05:52:07PM -0400, Farrell Aultman wrote: > Dropbear child process (shells created by client connections) would hang > around after the server process > has exited. This patch will kill these child processes when the dropbear > server exits.
I'm not convinced that Dropbear should be killing off these processes. Shouldn't they just notice that their stdin has gone away and then quit by themselves? If a child process is waiting to write out data (eg "ssh host "cat > /tmp/file") then might lose some bytes if killed abruptly. Matt
