On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Game Fan wrote: > Wanted to see if cygwin 1.7 is released or not and seen your letter. Don't > need another source of spam so I'm not subscribing to cygwin ML. > Are you sure it's problem with CygWin? I'm seeing such problems quite often > on Linux. The story goes like this: background screen process wants to stop > old foreground process when you are attaching new one to it, but old > foreground process tries to use PTY which lost it's owner! The lock happens > somewhere in kernel so old foreground process can not respond (yes, blocking > API are evil and all that). The solution is simple: find and kill old > foreground process with "kill -9" and connect to screen again.
I got this email today off-list. As suggested, killing the program that's running inside screen does make it reattachable, but this doesn't really seem like a real solution to me, since usually I want to see some state that was in screen. Also, I do use Linux sometimes, and the steps I ran doesn't cause screen to freeze there. Thanks, Karim -- 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
