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Screenify. Couple minor glitches are fixed: 1. line 1 - use bash, instead of sh. 2. here-docs were not properly terminated.
#!/bin/bash
#
# Trick process(es) to talk to current terminal
#
# Copyright (c) 2004, 2005 Timo Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
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function usage() {
echo usage: $0 pid ...
exit 1
}
TCGETS=0x5401
TCSETS=0x5402
SIZEOF_STRUCT_TERMIOS=60
O_RDWR=2
((FLAGS=O_RDWR))
if [ x`which gdb` = x ]; then
echo gdb not found in PATH. Please apt-get install gdb
exit
fi
if [ x$1 = x ]; then
usage;
fi
for PID in $@; do
MYPID=$$
MYFD0=`readlink /proc/$MYPID/fd/0`
MYFD1=`readlink /proc/$MYPID/fd/1`
MYFD2=`readlink /proc/$MYPID/fd/2`
EXE=`readlink /proc/$PID/exe`
if [ x$EXE = x ]; then
echo $0: $PID: no such pid
exit
fi
BATCHFILE=`mktemp /tmp/gdb.XXXXXXXXXXXX`
cat >$BATCHFILE <<-EOF
file $EXE
attach $PID
call malloc($SIZEOF_STRUCT_TERMIOS)
call malloc($SIZEOF_STRUCT_TERMIOS)
call malloc($SIZEOF_STRUCT_TERMIOS)
call ioctl(0, $TCGETS, \$1)
call ioctl(1, $TCGETS, \$2)
call ioctl(2, $TCGETS, \$3)
call close(0)
call close(1)
call close(2)
call open("$MYFD0", $FLAGS)
call open("$MYFD1", $FLAGS)
call open("$MYFD2", $FLAGS)
call ioctl(0, $TCSETS, \$1)
call ioctl(1, $TCSETS, \$2)
call ioctl(2, $TCSETS, \$3)
call free(\$1)
call free(\$2)
call free(\$3)
detach
EOF
gdb -batch -x $BATCHFILE >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null
rm $BATCHFILE
done
cat <<-EOF
Process(es) $@ should now be talking to this pty. Refresh the screen
(e.g. CTRL+L) and have fun!
EOF
exec tail -f --pid=$PID /proc/$PID/stat
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