It seems that once the MaxSessions limit is reached, the SSH client tries to establish a new connection.

As a workaround, the following hack seems to work, just making the command fail: 

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new( $host );
push @{$ssh->{_ssh_opts}}, '-oConnectionAttempts=0';
...

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After the capture method call, in case of too many session, $ssh->error will be OSSH_SLAVE_CMD_FAILED and $? == 255.

I will add some option to the constructor to allow for setting slave ssh arguments without fiddling with the object interiors.

Anyway, instead of forking and unlimited number of processes, you could also use Parallel::ForkManager or Proc::Queue to get it under control.

update: I have just released version 1.53_04 that allows to set default slave ssh options as follows: 

my $ssh = Net::OpenSSH->new($host,
                            default_ssh_opts => [-o => 'ConnectionAtte
+mpts=0'],
                            ...);

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In reply to Re: fork more than MaxSessions times in Net::OpenSSH by salva
in thread fork more than MaxSessions times in Net::OpenSSH by morya

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