[mosh-users] Mosh on long job, disconnected?

[Anton Lundin]

On 24 August, 2017 - C.v.St. wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 23.08.2017 um 09:09 schrieb john hood:
> > On 8/20/17 4:37 PM, C.v.St. wrote:
> ...
> > If your mosh-client dies (by your machine crashing, or running out of
> > battery), the mosh-server continues to run and the session and programs
> > in it should be unaffected-- you just can't reach the terminal session
> > any more.  I think of that as "alive but lost".
> 
> Would it be possible, to implement a kind of
> 'dump current state of terminal > to file'
> by e.g SIGUSR1 (or only in case of ending
> the server by Signals 1,15)?  That would
> show at least the last state of the lost
> session's terminal?  Or would this have too
> many security implications (write where,
> write when, how to set the filename ...)?

One could just implement this as a function,
dump_screen_to_file(filename) and then the advanced user can just
attach a debugger to the running mosh-server and that way instruct it do
do its bidding.


I can clearly see the use case for such a easter egg.


//Anton


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