On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 02:36:04PM +1100, Damien Miller wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2020, chris wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > I have a simple feature request for the devs and maintainers; when > > forking into the background using the -f optarg one would normally have > > to consult the process table of whatever OS they're running to find the > > process. Would you consider adding another optarg to write the PID out > > to stdout or a pidfile? This would be rather helpful in several > > usecases. > > You can retrieve this if you configure a control socket: > > $ ssh -S /tmp/sock -nNf host > $ ssh -S /tmp/sock -O check host > Master running (pid=3509649) > $ ssh -S /tmp/sock -O exit host > Exit request sent. > > -d Well that's handy. Thanks for the heads-up! -c _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
