Opened 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#41856 new request

port request: 'reptyr'

Reported by: KurtPfeifle (Kurt Pfeifle) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
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Description

'reptyr' is a tool that can pick up a running program and attach it to a new terminal.

This is very useful in many cases. Assume a long-running process started remotely over ssh. But you have to leave now and want the process to keep running until complete? Solution: start a screen session, use 'reptyr' to attach the long-running process into screen, close ssh and go home.

Caveats: the author of 'reptyr' states that porting it to BSD may be feasible, but is difficult.

Upstream sources are here: https://github.com/nelhage/reptyr

Change History (2)

comment:1 Changed 11 years ago by KurtPfeifle (Kurt Pfeifle)

'retty' is another utility which provides similar capabilities as 'reptyr': http://repo.or.cz/w/retty.git

comment:2 in reply to:  1 Changed 11 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Replying to kurt.pfeifle@…:

Caveats: the author of 'reptyr' states that porting it to BSD may be feasible, but is difficult.

Someone (not us) will need to make it OS X-compatible before we can add it to MacPorts.

Replying to kurt.pfeifle@…:

'retty' is another utility which provides similar capabilities as 'reptyr': http://repo.or.cz/w/retty.git

Is it OS X-compatible?

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