On Thu, 6 Feb 2014, Tim Broberg wrote: > Is anyone aware of a method to force termination of a single channel > without waiting for the associated process to complete? I think SSH2_MSG_CHANNEL_EOF then SSH2_MSG_CHANNEL_CLOSE might do what you want. > - SSH2_MSG_CHANNEL_CLOSE results in a long polling loop where sshd keeps > trying to garbage collect the channel, but can't because the process is > still alive. Furthermore, this appears to be stalling the other commands > as well. (More experimentation is needed on this point.) The server shouldn't hang while processing a close. > - I could try a SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_REQUEST "signal" and send SIGINT, > SIGTERM, SIGABRT, etc, but I don't see a handler for "signal" in the > server loop. No we don't support sending signals. There are patches on https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424 but we're worried about possible problems of sshd signalling processes it shouldn't. -d _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
