Re: Spawning a process into a new Screen window programmatically

Aaron Davies <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If it can start new processes (fork/exec, etc) it could retrieve $STY
from it's env and call screen with appropriate arguments to tell it to
start a new window w/a new process in it.

This is the same thing as spawning a new window/process from a shell
on the same box but outside the session.

On Tuesday, March 8, 2011, svidya <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way for an already running process to spawn another process in a
> new screen window? This is required so that both the processes can be
> individually controlled from two windows, but the second process can only be
> spawned once the first process reaches a certain stage in execution. Any
> ideas on how this can be achieved using screen will be very helpful.
>
> Thank you very much for your time,
> Vidya
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