>     I installed the screen package and much to my dismay, when I press
>C^a+k to kill a window and then make another one after that instantly
>with C^a+c, I get an ioctl error.

I can't reproduce that with an 1.3.3ish kernel and csh.

I could swear I've seen such messages on smaug, but I can't check because
it's out of ptys currently.

Maybe he could tell us which shell he is using and what the error message is.

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Christoph Badura
Verlag O'Reilly