Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running process between terminals?

Posted by eatitraw on Friday October 02, 2015 @11:27AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Let's say you have a pre-existing long-running process that you want to move between two different terminals(ideally, you'd like to move this process inside a tmux). What would be the most reliable way to do this?

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Re:Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running pro... by zero_by_divide on Friday October 02, 2015 @11:48AM (#10319281)

I don't know about "best", but there's RePTYr. https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr

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Re:Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running pro... by eatitraw on Saturday October 03, 2015 @12:46PM (#10324446)

This works sometimes! Thanks

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Re:Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running pro... by rndywcks on Friday October 02, 2015 @11:39AM (#10319215)

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

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Re:Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running pro... by eatitraw on Friday October 02, 2015 @11:44AM (#10319248)

I am aware of screen, and in fact, it'd be nice to move the process into a screen or tmux(and I mention this). The process is long-running, and I'd like to keep it running(instead of killing it and starting in screen/tmux)

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Re:Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running pro... by rndywcks on Friday October 02, 2015 @11:38AM (#10319210)

screen has existed for ages...

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Re:Ask HN: The best way to move an existing long-running pro... by eatitraw on Friday October 02, 2015 @11:42AM (#10319236)

The whole point of my question: you have a _pre-existing_ long-running process that you don't want to restart.

I am aware of screen and tmux, in fact, I explicitly mention that I'd like to move the process into a tmux:

> ideally, you'd like to move this process inside a tmux

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