From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 19 07:33:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA25936 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:33:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from chess.inetspace.com (chess.inetspace.com [206.50.163.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA25921 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:33:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kgor@localhost) by chess.inetspace.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA00323; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:31:49 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 09:31:49 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199703191531.JAA00323@chess.inetspace.com> From: "Kent S. Gordon" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com CC: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <20682.858762363@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: dup3() - I've thought it over and decided... Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "jkh" == Jordan K Hubbard writes: > 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: Try using screen and you can attach back to your old session. > [Attach your detached tree?] > And if you said 'y' you'd get your old process tree back, > everything right where you left it. > Jordan -- Kent S. Gordon Senior Software Engineer INetSpace Co. voice: (972)851-3494 fax:(972)702-0384 e-mail:kgor@inetspace.com