Re: [screen-devel] timing issue with "-X stuff" command

[Amadeusz Sławiński]

Hey,

can you try if it reproduces with current release (4.6.2)?

Cheers,
Amadeusz

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 19:13:38 +0200
Hans Henrik Bergan <address@hidden> wrote:

> seems like there may be a timing issue with the -X stuff command,
> 
> i had a script doing
> 
> screen -S foo -dm
> screen -S foo -X stuff "/path/to/script.sh^M"
> 
> and when the system is very busy, sometimes, the 2nd command seems to
> be completely ignored, there's no indication that anything was
> written/executed in the screen session,
> but adding a "sleep 1" in between seems to resolve the issue, which
> isn't a great solution, but a hacky workaround.. observed on:
> 
> > screen --version  
> Screen version 4.03.01 (GNU) 28-Jun-15
> > uname -a  
> Linux miner1 4.4.0-127-generic #153-Ubuntu SMP Sat May 19 10:58:46 UTC
> 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > cat /etc/*release*  
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS"
> NAME="Ubuntu"
> VERSION="16.04.4 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
> ID=ubuntu
> ID_LIKE=debian
> PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS"
> VERSION_ID="16.04"
> HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/";
> SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/";
> BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/";
> VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
> UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial
> 
> 
> and the CPU is Intel Core i3-7300T, with hyperthreading disabled, and
> core speed locked to 800MHz
>