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Re: GNU screen hangs
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 12:59:50AM -0400, Dave Steenburgh wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:14:11PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote:
>>>screen is difficult to debug, because it uses two communicating
>>>processes, one in the foreground to talk to your terminal, and one in
>>>the background to talk to the processes in each window.
>>
>> That's not that hard to debug. ?You just attach two different copies of
>> gdb to each process after screen starts running.
>
>...but you still need to know what you're looking at, and what to look
>for. It also helps to be well-versed with gdb, and I am not.
I was actually talking to Andrew Schulman, the screen maintainer.
cgf
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