On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 12:44:26AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote:
If I "ssh root@xxxxxxxxx" and enter "sleep 30 & exit", I don't get my own bash prompt back for 30 seconds, so it's definitely still a problem.
There's no way for sshd to "know" that the connection should be closed right away -- consider what you'd want to have happen if you ran "(sleep 30 ; echo important_data_which_must_not_be_discarded) & exit" instead. The server's just erring on the side of preserving data.
However it doesn't err at all on e.g. FBSD -
If the data is really important, any sys admin would at least nohup or screen the command
Joe
