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For all the people who complain about telnet: If it would use Unix domain sockets, the whole system would rebuild what you can do with ordinary stdin/stdout and
by ktpsns 6y ago
For all the people who complain about telnet: If it would use Unix domain sockets, the whole system would rebuild what you can do with ordinary stdin/stdout and GNU screen or tmux. I think the network transparency is a feature of this library.
- aargh_aargh 6y agoCan you please elaborate?
- ktpsns 6y agoGNU Screen and tmux are popular terminal multiplexers. One of the central features of such command line programs are to detach sessions from the actual user terminal emulators. The multiplexer is then running in the background, collecting stdout/stderr of the running shells and programs. When the user reconnects (this is typically not network transparent, but there are "extensions" such as https://tmate.io/ https://tmate.io/), she can immediately continue to interact with the programs.