Re: x forwarding over SSH

Isn't there any buggy process attached to sshd when FireFox dies ? 

Le jeudi 23 septembre 2010 à 20:26 -0700, Han a écrit : 
> Hi,
> 
> I am using SSH to do X forwarding and saw an interesting problem:  for
> some applications, even when I closed the application itself, the SSH
> session is still not closed.  For other applications, SSH sessions
> closed whenever I closed the application.
> 
> For example, if I do:
> 
> ssh -X <host> xclock
> 
> then I close the xclock app, the ssh session exits.
> 
> but if I do:
> 
> ssh -X <host> firefox
> 
> then I close the firefox app,  the ssh session does not exit.
> 
> In the latter case, I can see the corresponding sshd process is still
> running at <host>.  Is such behavior caused by the application?  any
> insights are appreciated.
> 
> my SSH version is:
> OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-6ubuntu2, OpenSSL 0.9.8g
> 
> thanks
> Han