Reptyr – Reparent a running program to a new terminal

by pmoriarty • 12 years ago

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sciurus• 12 years ago

There is some previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129726 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2571936

justincormack• 12 years ago

There was some discussion on the NetBSD list today as to how you might do this properly, ie with OS support not some hacks [1]. Although it is not clear it is worth bothering, as you just use screen first...

[1] http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel

pmoriarty• 12 years ago

This is useful for those cases where you didn't start screen first, such as when you either forgot or didn't think you'd need it but it turned out you did.

anaphor2• 12 years ago

I just alias my terminal shortcut/command to start screen/tmux every time

pronoiac• 12 years ago

This may be a dumb question, but wouldn't this work?

* press ctrl-z to put the program in the background

* start screen

* run fg within screen

bob917• 12 years ago

I tried this several times and it rarely works.

Reptyr – Reparent a running program to a new terminal

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