Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: inheriting processes from other ttys Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 88 01:32:30 GMT References: <1707@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <990@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Organization: The Office of Mismanagement and Bean Counting Lines: 11 Actually, I have a program that sort of emulates the DEC-20 attach/detach feature. I prototyped it in user mode with the hope that someday I would get around to putting it in the kernel. What it does is snatch a pty for your session and map that to a regular hard tty line. If you explicitly detach, hang up the phone, or are inactive for a specified period of time, the pty releases the hard tty line and goes into a dormant state. A simple command from another hard terminal remaps it to the new terminal. -Ron