Re: Bad interaction between svn and OpenSSH auto connection pooling

Erik Huelsmann wrote:
> On 3/3/07, Max Bowsher <maxb1@ukf.net> wrote:
>> I wonder why svn kills the ssh processes at all. It seems to me that svn
>> should simply close its pipes to the subprocess, and leave it to the
>> subprocess to determine when to exit.
>>
>> That would solve this problem rather nicely - can anyone see any
>> potential flaws?
>
> Daniel Berlin did (he read our code):
> http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-11/0194.shtml

Yes, I'm entirely aware of that comment, but it's far too terse to
actually be helpful. It doesn't really explain more than "this was prone
to weird problems".

Max.