Re: [screen-devel] Can I propose a new option "-k <sockdir>"?

[Clark Wang]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 10:09 AM Clark Wang <dearvoid@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to use nested screen sessions (with different screenrc) and I
> want the outer screen sessions to use a different socket dir so it's
> easier to differentiate between the outer and inner sessions. There's
> an env var SCREENDIR for this but the problem is SCREENDIR will be
> inherited to and so confuse inner screen sessions.
>
> So can we add a new "-k <sockdir>" to explicitly specify the socket dir?

Drafted a patch and it worked for me. Please take a look at the attachment.

-clark

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