[PLUG] Terminal multiplexers
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net
Wed Mar 27 19:43:28 UTC 2019
On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 6:24 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019, Russell Senior wrote:
>
> > "Screen is often used when a network connection to the terminal is
> > unreliable, as a dropped network connection typically terminates all
> > programs the user was running (child processes of the login session),
due
> > to the session ending and sending a "hangup" signal (SIGHUP
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGHUP>) to all the child processes.
>
> Yes, I've used screen to keep a process running after I've logged off the
> system, but screen is apparently not a terminal multiplexer.
Here is literally the first sentence of the wikipedia page:
"GNU Screen is a terminal multiplexer"
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Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net
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