Andrew Schulman wrote: ...........
Have you noticed the problem of processes not being killed when you kill their windows (C-a k) or the whole screen session (C-a \)? That problem is persistent for me, and IMO it's enough of a nuisance to keep the current screen package from being good enough to officially release. I don't think it's going to be hard to solve-- we just have to send a signal to the right child processes at the right time-- and I've made some progress at digging through the source code to find it. I hope to have a fix soon, and then I'll be glad to offer up screen as an official Cygwin package.
Works for me using rxvt and bash. I just tested it. screen bc -l scale=10000 a(1)*4 ^ak answer 'y' and ps and procexp show bc is gone. And thanks for screen it is awesome. Two things I use it for: 1. When I have a long running process like downloading source code. I can start it up and create a new window to continue working. 2. I havent done this on my windows computers yet but... On linux(ubuntu) I was doing a dist upgrade from breezy to dapper and I went home and found that the computer(at work) was hanging on a question to replace a .conf file(ntpserver) and I looked for a way to answer the question remotely. Thats when I stumbled on screen in my searches. If I had started screen before I started the dist upgrade then I could have "screen -d -r" and grabbed the window to answer the question. Since I hadnt started screen I couldnt do that but I will next time. I also found if I hadnt started screen I could have used x11vnc. Once again I would have had to have this installed before the dist upgrade(locks on apt-get) but in the future. Basically it would have been on remote machine "x11vnc" on local machine "vncviewer linux350:0" and voila the whole desktop is vnc'ed. I tested this and it allows input from local and remote at the same time. bob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
