Who's in screen D?

[Larry S. Weaver Jr.]

Fairlight wrote:

>Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Larry S. Weaver Jr. been jivin' 'bout like:
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>>Checking processes with ps returned the following:
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>>25330 scobey   S pts/74   00:00:00 /appl/fp/dscreen
>>27045 scobey   S pts/77   00:00:00 /appl/fp/dscreen
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>>("scobey" is my user name)
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>>Killing those processes cleared the "lock" on screen D.  So it wasn't a 
>>lockfile, it was the phantom dscreen process.
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>If it was really a phantom, the tty should have been "?" instead of
>"pts/77" I would expect.
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>mark->
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I called it a "phantom" because I checked all of my consoles, and I 
wasn't in screen D anywhere.  I didn't even have another define screens 
session open.  It has been literally years since I've been in this 
file.  I opened one session to edit processing, and a second to look at 
screens.  I checked screens A, B and C and then had the error when I 
tried D.  I'm not knowledgeable enough to know how the processes could 
have been going and don't understand the "pts/77" either.

If anyone can explain it, I would like to know how it happened.

Thanks,

Larry

Larry Weaver, Jr. - Dellem Associates, Inc.

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