> to allocate the pty in a normal fashion. however, i recently discovered
> that given enough persistence, you can overcome the bug merely by dishing
> out the create requests fast and furious...between the 5th and 20th try,
> whatever was broke is fixed. this is unfortunately as unpredictable a
I've seen this too with screen failing to be able to start up. Generally,
in these situations, screen -R will work. I don't know why.
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