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Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

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414 points st_goliath | 1 comments | 13 May 25 11:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.355s | source
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mmsc ◴[13 May 25 12:05 UTC] No.43971967[source]▶
It's surprising that upstream was involved in this. Around 5 years ago, I came to the (sad) conclusion that GNU screen development had completely halted. Is that still not the case?

Does screen have the functionality to add a new window to an existing screen without attaching to the screen yet?

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criddell ◴[13 May 25 13:44 UTC] No.43972925[source]▶
It’s not necessarily sad for GNU tool development to stop (other than bug fixes, of course). I would take that as a sign that they are basically complete.
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1. lxgr ◴[13 May 25 15:21 UTC] No.43973934[source]▶
Whether constant development is necessary or not largely depends on the surface area of your tool, both in terms of formal APIs it uses and external data formats and services.