On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 16:06 bch <brad.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 15:36 bch <brad.har...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 13:05 Mouse <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> wrote: >> >>> >> [...process reparenting...] >>> > Isn't what you want to do very similar to what happens when a process >>> > goes into background and the parent dies? >>> >>> Yes. Between that and the partial reparenting that happens at debugger >>> attach, most of the code I want already exists. >>> >>> The pieces that don't are things like dealing with control ttys and >>> sessions (reparenting orphaned processes to init deals with those, but >>> only in the form of setting them to a suitable "cleared" state; I would >>> want something more). >> >> >> >> ISTR NetBSD shipped (ships? I can’t find it on cursory glance) a >> slimmed-down process controller (“slimmed-down” vs tmux or screen w their >> myriad options and features) process handler - I want to say “detach”, but >> I’m not certain. >> > > Or “window”? What I’m remembering was definitely for a console, though, > and super basic. >
Apologies for replying to my own msgs. The software I was thinking of is window(1), which for NetBSD 7 was taken out of base and moved to pkgsrc/misc/window, according to src/doc/CHANGES.prev -bch > >> -bch >> >> >>> >>> /~\ The ASCII Mouse >>> \ / Ribbon Campaign >>> X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org >>> / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B >>> >>
