> On 7/19/06, Duane Krings <duanekrings> wrote: > > Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > and it will mostly work. You get a multiplexed screen. But when you > > > detach a session most of the time you can't reattach to it, even > > > though the processes live on so you have to kill them by hand. There > > > were some other minor problems that I forget right now. > > > > The behavior I see is: > > 1) start screen in xterm #1 then detach > > 2) try to reattach in xterm #1 fails > > 3) reattach with xterm #2 works > > 4) try to reattach in xterm #1 still fails > > or in general, the first terminal that tries to reattach to a running > > screen session is forever locked out, but all subsequent terminals > > will succeed. > > Give Mark Edgar's patch[*] a try. With it applied, screen behaves > better under Cygwin for me. Reattaching from the same terminal and > multi-display mode both work. There are still some problems, however. > Detaches sometimes get hung. Opening a new terminal and running > 'screen -list' will cause the hung detach to complete most of the > time. > > [*] Mark Edgar's patch > http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/~medgar/screen.html
OK, I'll look at this as soon as I can. From what people have reported here, it sounds as though it makes screen work well enough to at least package as a test version. -- 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/
