[screen-devel] [bug #44243] Robust Session Restoration

[Wyatt Epp]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44243>

                 Summary: Robust Session Restoration
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: wyattepp
            Submitted on: Fri 13 Feb 2015 09:32:41 PM GMT
                Category: Feature Request
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

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Details:

I'd like an option in Screen that associates a session with a file that's
automatically kept up-to-date with the state of that session such that it can
be recovered later, even if the machine it's running on is unplugged without
warning.

Ideally this will preserve and restore windows, shells (with CWD),
manually-set environment variables (i.e. via export), and whatever command was
running in those shells (if they can't be automatically filled in/started,
then I'd at least like to be able to find out what they were).

My rationale stems from my work, were the sysadmins will sometimes reboot my
development server without warning me.  Currently, this means I lose my
screens and whatever work I was doing at the time (usually three or four
sessions with 6-9 windows each).  Making a bunch of windows only takes a
little time, but losing the context of where I was and what I was doing tends
to cost me at least half a day's work; more if it happens over the weekend
(and still more if I ended the day deep in with gdb).




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