Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 17:36:02 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dup3() - I've thought it over and decided... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970319173406.1889A-100000@obiwan.aceonline.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20682.858762363@time.cdrom.com>
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> Anyone remember a timesharing system called ITS (from MIT)? If you > got disconnected from the modem (not uncommon in those days of > Pennywhistle, 300 baud acoustically-coupled modems :-) you wouldn't > lose your session, like you do under UNIX, rather the next time you > logged in it would ask you: > > [Attach your detached tree?] > > And if you said 'y' you'd get your old process tree back, everything > right where you left it. > Not that I was old enough at the time, but screen does this *grin* .. I'm sure with enough mucking bout you could get it to "time" out as such, I actually run it every time I dialup my ISP and have it do something very similar to what you described. :) Have fun, Adrian Chadd <adrian@psinet.net.au>
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