> I can reproduce this issue. It's not that it can't create the socket, > actually it does so, but for some reason it calls select and, when select > returns, it decides to clean up and exit.
On modified cygwin 1.7.9-1, the socket does not disappear (until shortly, 5 seconds?, after I type exit.) No problem with strace. > It's tricky to debug because > ssh-agent has no debug mode and for some reason it doesn't occur under > strace. Might this help ? -d Debug mode. "ssh-agent -d" reacts to SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-aGrJxZN880/agent.880 ssh u@host typed to other window. JK -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/ssh-agent-fails-to-create-socket-tp32655103p32666199.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple