'screen' started in detached mode -- cannot reattach

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Wed Apr 28 18:50:00 GMT 2010


> Yes, I understand that it is not possible for you to invest too much
> time into an exotic bug like this one. Thank you for the response.

It's not exotic... just a bit unusual :)  But it is important.  I wish I
could solve it, but I can't commit the time to do it. 

> Apparently, reattaching works from rxvt if the detached 'screen' process
> was launched from the console. With a little bit of luck it let me
> continue using cygwin/screen for my project, because I am spawning
> 'screen -d -m' from another process.

OK.  Interesting... I'd never thought of using screen that way before.
Andrew.


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