ssh cause mintty terminal not to close (tested on 4 cygwin installations)

[Brian Inglis]

On 2018-08-03 04:01, nkj@internetgruppen.dk wrote:
> On 2018-08-02 23:08, Andrey Repin wrote:
>> A long known issue.
>> mintty holds terminal open if last program finished with failure.
>> ssh somehow tripping this wire on occasion.
> OK.
>>> This may seem like a minor thing, but we have much trouble with Jenkins
>>> builds (started via Cygwin OpenSSH) which randomly hang forever - I wonder
>>> Â if this could be a clue in this investigation.

If you are using ssh with mintty add "-h never":

-h, --hold[ |=]never|start|error|always
~/.minttyrc, /etc/minttyrc Hold=never|start|error|always

man mintty notes ssh returns 255 on connection errors

>> Try upgrading your mintty, also, if it's about automated building environment,
>> I don't see how's mintty can be involved.

QA/testers may prefer to run tests in a tty using script, or some test tool,
rather than redirection, in what could be a background shell.

> If the "non-closure" of mintty  is completely internal in mintty and not a
> handshake-mistake with the cygwin dll or the OS, then I agree. It seems to be
> the case, reading the link provided by Thomas Wolff.
-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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