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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.

cgf

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