X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 09:47:30 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GNU screen hangs Message-ID: <20090903134730.GA24917@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090901141602.GD16845@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4A9D556C.8070808@gmail.com> <5a05e0e60909020719i46ab067y6a78dc5e4b6da366@mail.gmail.com> <20090903002631.GA4530@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <5a05e0e60909022159m2e3c29acs673edd314f759b52@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5a05e0e60909022159m2e3c29acs673edd314f759b52@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:59:50AM -0400, Dave Steenburgh wrote: >On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:14:11PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >>>screen is difficult to debug, because it uses two communicating >>>processes, one in the foreground to talk to your terminal, and one in >>>the background to talk to the processes in each window. >> >> That's not that hard to debug. ?You just attach two different copies of >> gdb to each process after screen starts running. > >...but you still need to know what you're looking at, and what to look >for. It also helps to be well-versed with gdb, and I am not. I was actually talking to Andrew Schulman, the screen maintainer. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple