On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 05:41, Martin Bähr <
mba...@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:58:06AM +0100, Jan Kanis wrote:
> > - A command like 'fish -c "echo %self; exec ssh user@somewhere"' will
> start
> > a new shell that will echo it's own pid and then exec ssh (keeping the
> pid).
>
> it does not appear to keep the pid if i run ssh -f -N -q
>

Apparently. The -f tells ssh to fork, giving it a new pid. The parent ssh
that asks for passphrases and such keeps the pid, but then forks off a child
to handle the rest of the connection and exits itself.

Jan
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