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From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Detachable ptys (was Re: tset (BSD?))
Message-ID: <1235@zen.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 08:54:09 GMT
References: <8776@sol.ARPA> <4493@hoptoad.uucp> <11797@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <11797@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> paul@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (Paul Placeway) writes:
>                                                               Another
>example is the CMU detachable ptys (a _really_ good idea): basically a
>given pty is not hard-associated with the _same_ tty, but can be
>assigned to an arbitrary free one (or one you allready own).  This
>allows the user to hang up one terminal, and go to another and continue
>the login session.  Naturally, since it was not invented at Berkeley, it
>didn't make it into the distributions.  *sigh*

Wow! Just what we've been looking for. We sometimes have to ``fix'' programs
that Users have managed to confuse whilst they were using them. Grabbing the
running process and terminal and making them on ours, fixing the problem and
pushing it back all whilst talking to the User over the 'phone sounds excellent.

		vic
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Victor Gavin                         vic@zen.co.uk || ..!mcvax!ukc!zen.co.uk!vic
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