Re: VMS-style Virtual Terminals.

Adam D. Moss (adam@uunet.pipex.com)
Fri, 30 May 1997 10:03:33 GMT


It sounds like the GNU 'Screen' utility is quite precisely what you
seek...?

ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/screen-3.7.2.tar.gz

--Adam

TIGRANA@DSTIUK.CCMAIL.CompuServe.COM writes:
>
>I have got a question for kernel and tty line discipline gurus.
>I have a PC that telnets to a Linux (or any other UNIX) machine and runs an
>application. It is very critical to be able to resume the session even if PC is
>rebooted or the telnet socket on the client side is closed for ANY reason.
>Usually, this would cause the session to be closed and if the process ignores
>SIGHUP then it will "hang in the air" with no means of resuming it.
>I need something that would allow (in a way portable to other UNIXes but even
>Linux-specific ideas would be VERY APPRECIATED):
>
>a) prevent losing ctty for the process.
>b) allow to reconnect to the old session later similar to the way VMS allows to
>attach to interactive session on next login.