1 .TH SCREEN 1 2006-05-22
4 retty - Attach process running on another terminal
12 is a simple tool which will let you attach process currently running on
13 another terminal. Unlike screen, you need to make no special provisions
14 in advance - just get the process' pid and attach it anytime.
16 Non-violently killing retty should provide for a proper detach - after that,
17 the process can be used on the original terminal again (multiple subsequent
18 retty attachments of a single process are possible, but the process does I/O
19 only on the last one).
21 You can also use escapes to detach a process and possibly do other things.
22 The escape character is "`" (lowercase of "~") and "`h" will give you list
23 of possible escape sequences. The escape character must be immediately
35 is x86-specific and works only on Linux.
37 The attached process' controlling terminal is not switched appropriately,
38 which causes many funny effects (e.g.
40 not properly adjusting for your
41 window size), annoying bugs (ctrl-c not delivered properly) and totally
42 breaking attaching for some applications (OpenSSH).
46 it imagines EOF on stdin. Attaching and detaching multiple times without
47 any activity in the meantime will cause it to die.