[H-GEN] Foregrounding a task

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Mon Apr 24 07:11:54 EDT 2006


On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 08:18:54PM +1000, Geoff Shang wrote:
> I was running a process on a remote machine when my host went down.  The 
> process on the remote box still shows as running, but I can't see any way 
> of foregrounding it so I can save my work.  Experimenting with signals 
> using another instance of the program merely results in either exits or 
> suspends, but maybe there's a signal that I should try that I haven't (I've 
> tried CONT).

Once lost you will never regain it.

But you can cheat by running these long-lasting tasks with screen
(ports/sysutils/screen on FreeBSD)

Edwin
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