diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e9f3a8d..68c4a59 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@
    - deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2001/02/28 05:34:28
      [misc.c]
      pull in protos
+   - deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2001/02/28 05:36:28
+     [sftp.c]
+     do not kill the subprocess on termination (we will see if this helps
+     things or hurts things)
 
 20010304
  - (bal) Remove make-ssh-known-hosts.1 since it's no longer valid.
@@ -4253,4 +4257,4 @@
  - Wrote replacements for strlcpy and mkdtemp
  - Released 1.0pre1
 
-$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.869 2001/03/05 06:09:31 mouring Exp $
+$Id: ChangeLog,v 1.870 2001/03/05 06:12:01 mouring Exp $
diff --git a/sftp.c b/sftp.c
index 0fba674..16a2616 100644
--- a/sftp.c
+++ b/sftp.c
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 #include "includes.h"
 
-RCSID("$OpenBSD: sftp.c,v 1.7 2001/02/08 00:04:52 markus Exp $");
+RCSID("$OpenBSD: sftp.c,v 1.8 2001/02/28 05:36:28 deraadt Exp $");
 
 /* XXX: commandline mode */
 /* XXX: copy between two remote hosts (commandline) */
@@ -254,11 +254,6 @@
 	close(in);
 	close(out);
 
-#if !defined(HAVE_CYGWIN)
-	if (kill(sshpid, SIGHUP) == -1)
-		fatal("Couldn't terminate ssh process: %s", strerror(errno));
-#endif
-
 	if (waitpid(sshpid, NULL, 0) == -1)
 		fatal("Couldn't wait for ssh process: %s", strerror(errno));