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It emulates a terminal because there needs to be a terminal there for the program to write to when you're not attached to the session.
by dTal 6y ago
It emulates a terminal because there needs to be a terminal there for the program to write to when you're not attached to the session.
- kps 6y agoBy ‘emulating’ I don't mean providing a pty, I mean providing a terminal emulator in the usual sense of interpreting control sequences to maintain a screen representation. Dtach and abduco (which I only learned about from this thread) does the former only, while tmux and screen do both.