Re: Attaching to a running CMUCL process

Håkon Alstadheim writes:
> Larry Clapp wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:50:32PM -0500, Denis Papathanasiou wrote:
> >   
> >> Other than using detachtty/attachtty, is there any way to attach to
> >> a running CMUCL process and have access to its top level?
> >>     
> > [...]
> >   
> >> Unfortunately, I can't run the process I want to monitor under
> >> detachtty.
> >>     
> >
> > It's a long shot, but can you use screen?
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Screen
> >
> >   
> Screen is way better and more stable. screen -d -m <your-lisp-executable>.

AFAIK, there's a big problem with screen:

  su - user -c 'screen -d -m any-program' 

doesn't work.  So you cannot use it for processes launched at boot
time, if not under root.

 

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