[xmonad] darcs patch: add SshAgent module, to start ssh-agent when needed.

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Mon Mar 31 20:25:10 EDT 2008


On Mar 31, 2008, at 17:11 , David Roundy wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:47:46PM +0200, Matthias Kilian wrote:
>>> Jamie's approach isn't truly general: if anything happens to that
>>> ssh-agent, then you're up the creek without a paddle.
>>
>> Little bit OT, but did this *ever* happen to you?
>
> I don't know.  I do know that the last time I started X, I had
>
> ssh-agent xmonad
>
> in my .vncrc/xstartup which had the result that when xmonad  
> restarted, the
> ssh-agent disappeared.  The SshAgent module allows me to rectify the
> situation without restarting my vncserver.

Odd.  I would expect xmonad to restart with an exec() syscall  
(execProcess?), which shouldn't cause ssh-agent to exit.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH




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