> I have got a question for kernel and tty line discipline gurus.
> I have a PC that telnets to a Linux (or any other UNIX) machine and runs an
> application. It is very critical to be able to resume the session even if PC is
> rebooted or the telnet socket on the client side is closed for ANY reason.
> Usually, this would cause the session to be closed and if the process ignores
> SIGHUP then it will "hang in the air" with no means of resuming it.
> I need something that would allow (in a way portable to other UNIXes but even
> Linux-specific ideas would be VERY APPRECIATED):
>
> a) prevent losing ctty for the process.
> b) allow to reconnect to the old session later similar to the way VMS allows to
> attach to interactive session on next login.
This can be done in user space - try GNU's 'screen'.
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