screen: Zombie
20.14 Zombie
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-- Command: zombie [KEYS [onerror] ]
-- Command: zombie_timeout [SECONDS]
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Per default windows are removed from the window list as soon as the
windows process (e.g. shell) exits. When a string of two keys is
specified to the zombie command, 'dead' windows will remain in the
list. The 'kill' command may be used to remove the window.
Pressing the first key in the dead window has the same effect.
Pressing the second key, however, screen will attempt to resurrect
the window. The process that was initially running in the window
will be launched again. Calling 'zombie' without parameters will
clear the zombie setting, thus making windows disappear when the
process terminates.
As the zombie setting is affected globally for all windows, this
command should probably be called 'defzombie', but it isn't.
Optionally you can put the word 'onerror' after the keys. This
will cause screen to monitor exit status of the process running in
the window. If it exits normally ('0'), the window disappears.
Any other exit value causes the window to become a zombie.
Additionally the 'zombie_timeout' command exists. If a window is
declared "dead", screen will automatically try to resurrect the
window after the timeout. It only works if zombie keys are defined
via 'zombie' command.
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