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Re: screen
- From: Andrew Schulman <andrex at alumni dot utexas dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:51:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: screen
- References: <42AF862C.3050900@ekit-inc.com>
>> Yes, the reattachment problem is now solved AFAICT, using Cygwin 1.5.17 or
>> later. Most of it works just fine, but there's one problem that I haven't
>> solved yet: when you detach a session, it stays bound to its parent
>> shell. So if you then try to exit the parent shell, it hangs. You can
>> terminate the parent shell, but then screen exits too. Obviously this
>> takes away one of the big advantages of screen, which is the ability to
>> detach a session, leaving it running in the background, and then reattach
>> later from a different terminal.
>
> hmm I have not had that problem? I run rxvt's with bash and can exit all
> terminals leaving no bash process but screen lives on. I can then fire
> up another shell and re-connect to screen and any jobs it has running.
> (ie it works just like it should!)
Interesting. Okay, I hadn't noticed this before, but the problem does
seem to be particular to the Cygwin console. It doesn't occur with
rxvt. Also, it doesn't occur in the Cygwin console if I start a
subshell first, and invoke screen from there. Maybe useful to know.
Still, I do want to solve the problem before I release screen.
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