Re: HPUX 11i - screen 4.0.2: screen starts 2 procs

[judd]

On 3:33 pm 10/19/06 Adam Lazur <address@hidden> wrote:
> judd (address@hidden) said:
> >  What's up with screen 4.0.2 with HPUX 11i?  Whenever I start up
> >  screen it starts TWO screen processes, not just one like on Linux.
> >  Is it really using 2x the RAM and FDs?  I don't think so, because
> >  I only get one log..
> >   jmaltin 13190 16067  0 15:26:21 pts/2     0:00 screen
> >   jmaltin 13191 13190  0 15:26:21 ?         0:00 screen
> >
> >  Is this a design feature?  I got the bits from the HPUX Porting
> >  Archive at http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/
>
> There are 2 on Linux too, it's just that one renames itself SCREEN so
> your grep probably misses it.
>
> You could think of it as a client and a server. The server portion
> stays around and does all the work. When you detach, the client dies
> but the server stays around holding the ptys and children. When you
> re-attach, you get a new client but the server is the same.
>
> Make sense?
>
> --
> Adam Lazur

Adam,

Yup.. makes good sense.  Thanks for the very clear description.  You've
been very helpful in the past also.  Thanks a lot, man.

-judd