Re: ssh-agent doesn't die

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Nov  4 11:49, Tim Adye wrote:
> On 03/11/2019 19:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 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/
> 
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> That fixes the problem! With cygwin1-20191103.dll.xz installed as
> /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll, all my ssh-agent processes exit properly.
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Corinna
> 
> Thanks for the excellent fix,
> Tim.

Thanks for testing,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

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