On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 07:50:28PM -0500, Kurt Lieber wrote: > I was ssh'd in to a remote machine doing an apt-get upgrade and watched > patiently as it upgraded ssh to the latest patched version. > > I also watched as it restarted the sshd daemon without terminating my > existing ssh connection. How is that possible? Wouldn't restarting the > daemon kill all existing instances of that daemon?
If sshd forks to handle incoming connections, then it's parent can exit without adversely affecting the child process. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
