Re: session save to disk?

[Artur Skonecki]

Recently I wrote a GNU Screen session saver.

Download: http://github.com/skoneka/screen-session/downloads
A little howto: 
http://adb.cba.pl/gnu-screen-tips-page-my.html#howto-screen-session

It currently supports saving of:
directories, programs, layouts, scrollbacks, titles ( what else it could save? )
It recognizes groups and regular windows. Currently there is no support for 
serial and telnet window types (because so far I didn't manage to use them) but 
they would be probably easy to add.

screen-session saves directories and programs by directly reading /proc filesystem ( it 
reads cwd, exe and cmdline ) and sorts them by parent pid. There is no 
"stuffing" and there is totally no interaction with programs in windows. After 
session loading, in every new window starts screen-session-primer (small C program) which 
displays list of processes and asks user what to do(whether to start none, part of or all 
window's processes).
There is also a blacklist for programs which may not be started.


Basic usage is dead simple.

To save run inside saved session:
$ screen-session --save

To load last saved run inside another session:
$ screen-session --load

You can save any running session:
$ screen-session --save --in PID --out mysavedsession

And load it in any session:
$ screen-session --load --out PID --in mysavedsession

All loadad session are wrapped in restore_[name] groups so they do not clutter 
the workspace.
By default all sessions are saved in $HOME/.screen-sessions.
More examples in README.

This session saver requires a recent GNU Screen version (git) with a trivial 
patch.
screen-session.diff changes:
- add "tty" command ( necessary for reading /proc filesystem using lsof )
- make   "layout"   "group"   "maxwin"    "sessionname"   queryable


Question to maintainers: Could you consider making more commands queryable by 
default? (especially those which only require adding CAN_QUERY in comm.c)

Regards
--
Artur Skonecki
http://adb.cba.pl