Re: how to kill child process?

[vapnik spaknik]

>On Monday, August 24, 2020, 01:05:31 PM GMT+1, Sebastian Miele 
><sebastian.miele@gmail.com> wrote:

>vapnik spaknik <vapniks@yahoo.com> writes:

>> (execlp "ssh" "ssh" "-S" "~/.ssh/%C" "-N" "-f" "remotehost")
>>
>> However, this doesn't work


>The problem probably is the following: The above invocation of 'ssh'
>with '-S' is the invocation of a slave.  It creates a master (with a new
>PID).  After that it immediately exits ('-N').

Oops, I forgot to include the "-M" flag in the previous post. That ensures the 
ssh connection is a master connection, and I get the same problem.