Re: [PATCH 2/2] screen: Implement dead/zombie window polling

I second that. Nice features!

Tomas can you please look into Sadrul's question below?

Cheers, JW-

Sadrul Habib Chowdhury <[email protected]> wrote:

>Hi! From a quick glance, this looks like a good change. Comments
>inline:
>
>On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:28 AM, Thomas Renninger <[email protected]>
>wrote:
>[snip]
>> --- a/src/doc/screen.1
>> +++ b/src/doc/screen.1
>> @@ -3542,6 +3542,15 @@ Optionally you can put the word \*Qonerror\*U
>after the keys. This will cause sc
>>  to monitor exit status of the process running in the window. If it
>exits normally ('0'),
>>  the window disappears. Any other exit value causes the window to
>become a zombie.
>>
>> +.BR "zombie_timeout" [\fIseconds\fP]
>> +.PP
>> +Per default
>> +.I screen
>> +windows are removed from the window list as soon as
>> +the windows process (e.g. shell) exits. If \fBzombie\fP keys are
>defined
>> +(compare with above \fBzombie\fP command), it is possible to also
>set a
>> +timeout when screen tries to automatically reconnect a dead screen
>window.
>> +
>
>'automatically reconnect a dead screen window'  -> 'automatically
>launch the process that was running in the dead window', or
>'automatically resurrect the dead screen window'.
>
>The 'zombie' command applies for all windows. But it looks like
>'zombie_timeout' applies to the currently selected window, and all
>newly created windows? Can you please explicitly state that in the
>man/info pages.
>
>Thanks!
>Sadrul

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