Re: ssh ControlMaster problem, workaround

On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > My recommended fix is described in
> > <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2006-03/0984.shtml>.
>
> Waiting potentially a few seconds after a short svn command-line
> transaction would be annoying for client users.

Yes, a long delay would be anoying, but ssh usually cleans up after
itself and exits in much less than one second, so the delay waiting for
ssh to exit would usually be much less than one second. Such a short
delay would not be annoying at all.

> Also, if you do have to send the signal, you still get that unsightly
> warning message, thus not addressing the reason the KILL hack was used
> in the first place.

Again, this would be annoying only in the *extremely rare* case that
the signal actually gets sent. Even when it happens, it would be less
annoying than the unclean kill we have now.

How often do you see ssh sessions that fail to exit cleanly within a
very short time?

--apb (Alan Barrett)

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Received on 2008-07-19 09:33:38 CEST