>
> you are saying processes will terminate if trying to write to stdout...?
>

if the listener is gone the write will return an error, but whether the
error causes the process to terminate is still up to the process.

As a side note, I have not had much luck with non-executing ssh tunnels (-N)
> staying alive


try setting ClientAliveInterval
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