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Consider the following Makefile.

all:
    yes

If I run make and suspend using Ctrl-Z, and then start screen or tmux, followed by an attempt to reptyr, I get the following error.

$ reptyr 5328
[-] Process 5329 (yes) shares 5328's process group. Unable to attach.
(This most commonly means that 5328 has suprocesses).
Unable to attach to pid 5328: Invalid argument

It is certainly true that make has subprocesses, but is there a way to reptyr anyways, either using this tool or another tool?

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reptyr version 0.6 introduced -T option for "tty-stealing" mode, which works on processes with children.

See https://blog.nelhage.com/2014/08/new-reptyr-feature-tty-stealing/ for more details.

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