X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:10:02 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: GNU screen on Cygwin: Cannot seem to reattach, no matter what I try
Message-ID: <20110511081002.GH28594@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <kj0es69j72s340jpv55mn4fd8kvfpigtjd AT 4ax DOT com> <4DC987B8 DOT 4010709 AT dougmorse DOT org> <aj2js656aa8s3rhg16ol319lj9lundnfnk AT 4ax DOT com> <20110511073425 DOT GF28594 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20110511073425.GF28594@calimero.vinschen.de>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

On May 11 09:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 10 15:07, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > > a session that I detached on the same tty just seconds before.
> > > 
> > > 3. chmod 666 on the socket file did not work (its permissions were 
> > > already 644, owned my 'morse', as shown in my original session long).
> > 
> > No, I suggested that you try 0600, on the theory that your 0640 permissions
> > might be too permissive, and screen would refuse to use the socket.
> > Unlikely, but worth a try.
> > 
> > However, if your socket is on a FAT file system, I don't know if you can
> > set 0600 permissions.
> > 
> > > HOWEVER, I am wondering: my Cygin /tmp *IS* on a FAT32 filesystem, *NOT* 
> > > an NTFS filesystem.  Would that matter?  Are socket files properly 
> > > handled by Cygwin on FAT32?  (I've never used a socket-based Cygwin 
> > > program on this host before, at least not to my knowledge.)
> > 
> > Hm, that could explain it.  I don't recall this coming up before.
> 
> AF_LOCAL/AF_UNIX sockets are handled on all file systems.

Correction:  AF_LOCAL/AF_UNIX sockets are handled on all file systems
             which support DOS attributes.  They don't work on NFS,
             for instance.


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple