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Animats on June 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: You don't need to daemonize

As was pointed out a few days ago, if the output stream exerts backpressure, write calls will stall. Stopping scrolling at the output end is enough to do that.

__david__ on June 28, 2015 [–]

But that's the whole point of screen and tmux—It's always got a terminal to suck up stdout.

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