On 3:33 pm 10/19/06 Adam Lazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > judd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > What's up with screen 4.0.2 with HPUX 11i? Whenever I start up > > screen it starts TWO screen processes, not just one like on Linux. > > Is it really using 2x the RAM and FDs? I don't think so, because > > I only get one log.. > > jmaltin 13190 16067 0 15:26:21 pts/2 0:00 screen > > jmaltin 13191 13190 0 15:26:21 ? 0:00 screen > > > > Is this a design feature? I got the bits from the HPUX Porting > > Archive at http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/ > > There are 2 on Linux too, it's just that one renames itself SCREEN so > your grep probably misses it. > > You could think of it as a client and a server. The server portion > stays around and does all the work. When you detach, the client dies > but the server stays around holding the ptys and children. When you > re-attach, you get a new client but the server is the same. > > Make sense? > > -- > Adam Lazur
Adam, Yup.. makes good sense. Thanks for the very clear description. You've been very helpful in the past also. Thanks a lot, man. -judd _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
