openssh refuses to close if open stderr/stdout/stdin

From: Bill Unruh (unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 04/22/02


From: unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca (Bill Unruh)
Date: 22 Apr 2002 17:52:55 GMT

Open ssh has changed the default in that it will refuse to close if
there are any programs which still have open ports (eg stderr, stdout,
stdin) through the link. This is a change in the procedures, and is a
real real pain in the but, since a lot of programs are badly written and
leave one of those ports dangling even if put into the background. This
hangs the closing of ssh.

Is there some variable I can set or some configuration I can do to get
the old behaviour back again. It would be OK if it warned me about open
ports, but it should then tell me which programs, and I should be able
to shut the ssh link anyway if I want to.

The current behaviour is terrible.



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