"Me too!" Freaky thing is, this *may actually be possible*. If screen develops the capability to import TTY FDs from another process, then the answer may be as simple as a wrapper around your shell that does little more than hold the FDs for your TTY, and pipes them through. (Well, it'd also need to do the right things w/ signals, but let's not get caught up in details.) You could arrange for this to run from your login scripts (or perhaps .cshrc/.bashrc if you're careful--it'd have to somehow autodetect its or screen's presence to avoid recursion). Such a wrapper could be very, very lightweight, since it wouldn't even need to do any terminal emulation, since it's not doing any terminal multiplexing. All it'd need to know how to do is surrender its FDs over a UNIX domain socket when requested by screen for the import. If screen sprouts the aforementioned capability, can we get that wrapper as a tool also? I'd add it to my login scripts in a heartbeat. It'd be like "screen, ultra light." So light weight there's no excuse NOT to run it. --Joe We sell Spatulas, and that's all!http://spatula-city.org/~im14u2c/ http://sdk-1600.spatula-city.org/ http://intyos.spatula-city.org/
----- Original Message ---- From: Dave Waxman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: screen-users@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:03:00 AM Subject: Re: attaching detached sessions to the current one On May 16 08:37, Aaron Davies wrote: > On 5/16/06, Michael Schroeder > A related feature I'd love to see implemented some day is the ability > to import a non-screen process into screen. For example, I might start > a compilation or a download in a normal shell, realize I have to go > somewhere, and want to detach it for later monitoring through screen, > but if I didn't have the forsight to start it in screen in the first > place, I can't do that now. I'd agree 100%. This is the one thing I've been praying to see added for YEARS. I always start the most important thing RIGHT before I realize I have to go ... -- Dave Waxman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://waxman.org/ "Some Scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe." - Frank Zappa _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
