Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/14/21:37:27
Andrew.Schulman wrote
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> OK. I later changed the version number from 1 to 0test1, so the URLs for
> download are now
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/screen/screen-4.0.2-0test1.tar.bz2
> (binary)
> http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/cygwin/screen/screen-4.0.2-0test1-src.tar.bz2
> (source)
Thank you for that.
> 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!)
- Shaun
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