Control: tag -1 pending

Hello Steve,

Steve Langasek [2019-02-11 10:58 -0800]:
> The libssh 'libssh-server' autopkgtest is badly racy

Whoops, sorry for the blunder. Thanks for the report!

> A more correct fix would be to run the server in the foreground, let it
> background itself once it's listening to the socket, and include support for
> killing the process via control socket (or use pgrep to find the process, or
> have it write a pidfile) rather than waitpid.

The server only serves one request, so we can't do a waiting loop; but that
also means we don't need any complicated mechanism for killing it again. I
implemented the proper backgrounding:

  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/libssh/commit/96ae6889875a

Martin

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