[sf-lug] switching from ssh server to terminal: can it be done and if so, how?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
>  Common for me too, I'm afraid!

Yet another reason to always use screen :-)

>  I've always thought it should be possible to attach to the program(s) in
>  question with a debugger, close stdout and stderr, and re-open them as
>  file desecriptors to a new terminal.  I've never tried such a trick - has
>  anyone on the list?

I bet you could do it using /proc/{PID}/fd/, but I have never tried...
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