Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/07/21/10:22:49
> On 7/19/06, Duane Krings <duanekrings> wrote:
> > Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > and it will mostly work. You get a multiplexed screen. But when you
> > > detach a session most of the time you can't reattach to it, even
> > > though the processes live on so you have to kill them by hand. There
> > > were some other minor problems that I forget right now.
> >
> > The behavior I see is:
> > 1) start screen in xterm #1 then detach
> > 2) try to reattach in xterm #1 fails
> > 3) reattach with xterm #2 works
> > 4) try to reattach in xterm #1 still fails
> > or in general, the first terminal that tries to reattach to a running
> > screen session is forever locked out, but all subsequent terminals
> > will succeed.
>
> Give Mark Edgar's patch[*] a try. With it applied, screen behaves
> better under Cygwin for me. Reattaching from the same terminal and
> multi-display mode both work. There are still some problems, however.
> Detaches sometimes get hung. Opening a new terminal and running
> 'screen -list' will cause the hung detach to complete most of the
> time.
>
> [*] Mark Edgar's patch
> http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/~medgar/screen.html
OK, I'll look at this as soon as I can. From what people have reported
here, it sounds as though it makes screen work well enough to at least
package as a test version.
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