Hallo,

In message <_A3388@delegate-en.ML_> on 07/12/06(20:03:04) I wrote:
 | |The most important trick is to fork() twice, so the process becomes its 
 | |own process group and is detached from any terminal and process group.
 |
 |I think it is the very functionarity of setsid() and it works as expected
 |on BSD.  I tested to close the standard input after setsid() as the
 |enclosed patch, and it solved the problem of SSH on Linuxes I have
 |(Debian3.1 and RedHat9).

I tested fork() after setsid() but it does not solved the problem.
It might not be the problem of daemonizing but it seems just because
sshd (left as "sshd: user@notty") does not finish until the pty is
closed completely, possibly for security consideration (?)
Or it might be just a bug of ssh:
<URL:http://lists.debian.org/debian-ssh/2005/02/msg00012.html>
> Summary:
> Lot of command-only sshd childs hangs witch kernel 2.6
>
> Description:
> on Debian Linux ( sarge ) with kernel 2.6.9 hangs a non privileged
> thread from sshd if esecuted command returns. Not every request hangs,
> but a lot:

Cheers,
Yutaka
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