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Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 20:11:00 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: ssh hanging
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In-Reply-To: <20010522193058.B4807@monster.master-link.org>; from linguist-cygwin@rich-paul.net on Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:30:58PM -0400

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:30:58PM -0400, linguist-cygwin AT rich-paul DOT net wrote:
>For what it's worth, I have a (somewhat) similar problem:
>
>bash$ nohup ssh-agent > ~/.ssh-agent &
>bash$ exit
>
>causes the terminal window to hang there.  If I kill the term
>window, ssh-agent may or may not die, but will not work.
>
>Latest of everything, AFAIK, and Win2K.

This is to be expected, if you are using CYGWIN=tty.  If you use
CYGWIN=tty and running in a console window, cygwin won't allow the
process to exit until the last user of the tty is gone.

Possibly doing this:

nohup ssh-agent > ~/.ssh-agent 2>&1 < /dev/null&

may work better.

cgf

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