Hints for Screen under Cygwin

Hi folks.  I am running the cygwin-patched version of screen-3.9.15,
as can be found here:

http://home.tiscali.de/emilio.lopes/screen/screen.html

And I am running the latest version of cygwin under XP, i.e.:

soggywulf% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 soggywulf 1.5.5(0.94/3/2) 2003-09-20 16:31 i686 unknown
unknown Cygwin

Like many of you, I have problems reattaching screens on this cygwin
system.  The problem unfortunately appears somewhat random and
non-reproduceable--i.e. one moment 'screen -r' hangs completely, and
the next time I try it may reattach the same screen just fine.

I have learned a couple things:

1) If you are logged in via a remote ssh terminal, your chances of
reattaching are much lower--but not impossible.

2) If you have just tried a 'screen -r' and it hangs, do the
following.  Close the window with the hung screen.  Use 'screen -ls'
to find the process IDs of your detached screens.  'kill -9' the
'screen -r' process, which has a new process number not the same as
any of the detached screen process numbers.  Be careful not to kill
any of your original detached screens.  Exit all open shells.  Now
open a new shell (either locally or remotely), and try reattaching
again.  Rinse and repeat until screen finally reattaches.


Any other hints for running screen under cygwin?


 

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