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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... 
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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>