URL:
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Summary: [patch] add per-window zombie setting
Project: GNU Screen
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Tue 07 Dec 2010 12:32:16 AM UTC
Category: Feature Request
Severity: 3 - Normal
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: None
Fixed Release: None
Planned Release: None
Work Required: None
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Details:
Patch attached that adds -zy and -zn options that enable and disable zombie
for a particular command, eg:
screen -zn reset-database.sh
so you don't have to risk hitting 'r' much later and doing something
destructive. -zy is also supported for completeness, but it only comes into
play if screen is started with -zn.
When zombie is disabled, this has no effect on any behavior.
When zombie is enabled, -zy normally changes nothing and -zn allows the
window to be destroyed when the command exits. If screen is started with -zn,
any new windows will not be zombies unless started with screen -zy.
I do mostly python programming, this is at the limits of my C abilities. My
main question is whether I've correctly updated MSG_VERSION in screen.h; I
added msg.m.create.zombie, but I have no idea what's going on in MSG_REVISION
and don't know if I need to do anything there.
This patch is also missing a means of changing the zombie flag on existing
windows; presumably this will be a command (although also presumably not
'zombie' to avoid breakage, so I don't know where that leaves 'defzombie') but
I don't have the time to implement it at the moment. Hopefully I'll have time
to revisit later for that & any changes needed on the patch.
Adam
a...@gomaa.us
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Date: Tue 07 Dec 2010 12:32:16 AM UTC Name:
screen-2010-12-06-zombie-windows.patch Size: 4kB By: None
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=22141>
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