I do a fair number of Linux kernel builds at work. Doing a Yocto build for our target machine takes about an hour and 40 minutes for a the build to complete and the root filesystem to be prepared. If I do that from home, there's a chance that I'll get a hiccup on my VPN connection which might disrupt the build in progress. Even at work, I ssh into my Linux build machine from a Windows laptop and use xterm sessions for most of my development tasks. If I kick off a build before heading home, there's always a chance that Windows will decide to do an update which could also disrupt my build.
Fortunately GNU Screen can make your sessions persistent through disruptions due to network disconnections or other reasons. Now I make sure to start a GNU Screen session before doing my build. I start named screen sessions with a command such as "screen -S build". That way, if my session is disconnected, I can rejoin it with the command "screen -r build".
The one thing I don't like about GNU Screen is its default escape key, Control-A, since that interferes with the default Emacs command line editing mode in Bash. So I've created a ~/.screenrc configuration file with the following command to change the escape key to Control-T.
escape ^tt
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