This is not yet needed, because we don't terminate remote background commands. But once we do, if we run ssh without -t the ssh session may close and the program may carry on happily running. I have hit this problem experimenting with mausezahn, let's fix it already to avoid someone else wasting time debugging it. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/remote_ssh.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/remote_ssh.py b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/remote_ssh.py index 924addde19a3..294a4ed8284e 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/remote_ssh.py +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/drivers/net/lib/py/remote_ssh.py @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from lib.py import cmd self._tmpdir = None def cmd(self, comm): - return subprocess.Popen(["ssh", "-q", self.name, comm], + return subprocess.Popen(["ssh", "-t", "-q", self.name, comm], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) def _mktmp(self): -- 2.44.0