Tranfering nohup processes between ttys

[Joe Greco]

In comp.unix.wizards article <191 at rossignol.Princeton.EDU>, tr at samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) wrote:
:In article <1990Jun3.191948.13333 at murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
:aj3u at ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (Asim Jalis) writes:
:
:$ Is there an easy way to transfer nohup process which has been spawned
:$ by a parent no longer alive, between ttys?  I am not sure how clearly,
:$ [...deleted...]
:
:I know of only one way to do this, and it's not any goodd for many
:situations.  There is a program caled "screen" which is freeware and
:runs only ony BSD flavors of Unix.  If you hangup during a screen
:session, logging back in allows you to reattach to the screen's child
:processes.

This "feature" is no longer available in newer releases of "screen" -
however I can't say that I really miss it.  Most interactive things can be
saved and restored later, and processes that I want to nohup and let run, I
usually mail the output to myself.  As a further note, I believe "screen"
also caused the child to block on output if the parent had disconnected.
This was not optimal in my opinion and was one reason I considered it to be
a less-than-valuable function.

... Joe

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