> I'd like to package and maintain win-ssh-agent for Cygwin. > With the win-ssh-agent, we can use the ssh-agent (available inthe > cygwin openssh) in the more smart way. > Normally, we need to start all relevant programs, which mightneed to > use the ssh, as child processes of the shell(e.g. bash) in which you > eval'ed the ssh-agent. Because, theprograms must be able to refer to > environment variables thatset by the ssh-agent. > The win-ssh-agent enables all programs to refer to theenvironment > variables of the ssh-agent, i.e. theSSH_AUTH_SOCK. Now, we no longer > need to start programs aschild processes of the shell.
+1 Sounds useful.
