System command executes but is immediately backgro

Question

I'm attempting to use the TProcess unit to execute ssh to connect to one of my servers and provide me with the shell. It's a rewrite of one I had in Ruby as the execution time for Ruby is very slow. When I run my Process.Execute function, I am presented with the shell but it is immediately backgrounded. Running pgrep ssh reveals that it is running but I have no access to it whatsoever, using fg does not bring it back. The code is as follows for this segment:

  if HasOption('c', 'connect') then begin
    TempFile:= GetRecord(GetOptionValue('c', 'connect'));
    AProcess:= TProcess.Create(nil);
    AProcess.Executable:= '/usr/bin/ssh';
    AProcess.Parameters.Add('-p');
    AProcess.Parameters.Add(TempFile.Port);
    AProcess.Parameters.Add('-ntt');
    AProcess.Parameters.Add(TempFile.Username + '@' + TempFile.Address);
    AProcess.Options:= [];
    AProcess.ShowWindow:= swoShow;
    AProcess.InheritHandles:= False;
    AProcess.Execute;
    AProcess.Free;
    Terminate;
    Exit;
  end;

TempFile is a variable of type TProfile, which is a record containing information about the server. The cataloging system and retrieval works fine, but pulling up the shell does not.

Answer 1

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AProcess.ShowWindow:= swoShow;
AProcess.InheritHandles:= False;
AProcess.Execute;
AProcess.Free;
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You're starting the process but not waiting for it to exit. This is from the documentation on Execute:

Execute actually executes the program as specified in CommandLine, applying as much as of the specified options as supported on the current platform.

If the poWaitOnExit option is specified in Options, then the call will only return when the program has finished executing (or if an error occured). If this option is not given, the call returns immediatly[sic], but the WaitOnExit call can be used to wait for it to close, or the Running call can be used to check whether it is still running.

You should set the poWaitOnExit option in options before calling Execute, so that Execute will block until the process exits. Or else call AProcess.WaitOnExit to explicitly wait for the process to exit.