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Re:You don't need to daemonize by Animats on Sunday June 28, 2015 @05:06PM (#9795101)
As was pointed out a few days ago, if the output stream exerts backpressure, write calls will stall. Stopping scrolling at the output end is enough to do that.
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Re:You don't need to daemonize by __david__ on Sunday June 28, 2015 @05:47PM (#9795245)
But that's the whole point of screen and tmux—It's always got a terminal to suck up stdout.
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