Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:47:15 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: screen [ping cgf]
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 04:27:22PM -0500, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>> Will this have any impact on having a version of screen that works?
>
>I have a working version of screen on Cygwin.  I use it daily, and it works
>fine.  With CYGWIN=tty set, the reattachment bug appears to be solved; it
>detaches and reattaches sessions normally, which was a problem for a long
>time.  Not many patches are needed any more.  More patches used to be
>required, one of which was specific to Win9x, but I believe that
>improvements in the Cygwin DLL have rendered those unnecessary now.
>
>At this point I know of only one main outstanding bug in screen:  when you
>kill a window or the whole screen session, the child processes aren't
>killed.  They hang around and you have to kill them manually.
>
>screen is an extremely useful program, that people have been asking for in
>Cygwin for a long time.  I'd be willing to package it, but when I floated
>the idea a year ago or so, the feeling seemed to be that there were still
>too many bugs to make it useful.  If people can live with (or even better,
>test and help me try to fix) the unkilled-child-process bug, then I'm
>willing.  I could release it as a test version.
>
>Yes?  No?

What do I have to do with this?  If you are responding to something that
I said then please post a reference and don't leave everyone guessing.

Otherwise propose to package it using the standard procedure.

cgf

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