Subj : Re: Screen or tmux?
To : paulie420
From : fusion
Date : Sat May 01 2021 05:33 pm
On 01 May 2021, paulie420 said the following...
pa> I do not use screen/tmux... I've used it a time or two that I needed to
pa> do something special with irssi (put handles on the left side of
pa> screen..) but I don't understand/know what its uses ARE.
traditionally when a process's controlling terminal closes, the programs running in it close. so yeah, like if your ssh session were to disconnect because the power went out, what you were currently doing would abruptly end. this could be particularly annoying if you were doing something like compiling firefox ;) (from remote i guess so the server still had power lol)
so now screen/tmux take the role of controlling terminal and have special
handling for that event.
this probably mattered more when these machines were actually multiuser (as in actual people) and resources were scarce. there are a few public *nix machines out there that do still limit users to one process running while they're not logged in (or one + tmux).
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