top: enable screen contents preservation at end-of-job

The title of this commit is actually quite misleading.

Were it more accurate, it would at least mention a tty
emulator's scrollback buffer, which was the cumulation
of a long pursuit to reduce the SIGWINCH overhead when
a window manager carelessly floods an application with
that signal *while* a user is still resizing a window!

Disabling and enabling that scrollback buffer resulted
in the final top display replaced with original screen
contents, a phenomenon acknowledged at the time but it
also represented a user interface change which has now
produced the first request for return to old behavior.

After the SIGWINCH dust settled, another problem arose
regarding behaviors under the 'screen' window manager.
In response, top was refactored a bit to avoid display
corruption. That was before discovering 'screen' could
duplicate the scrollback buffer behavior top expected.

As it turns out, the 'screen' refactoring had probably
made scrollback buffer manipulation unnecessary. Still
one could argue that a window should not be allowed to
scroll while a constantly updating program was active.

The solution represented in this commit returns former
behavior at program end (retaining top's last screen).
And if we ever wish to disable scrollback buffers, the
associated logic was retained but made conditional. It
is not reflected in configure.ac but might be someday.

Lastly, this commit corrects cursor positioning when a
^C is issued under 'Fields Management' at any terminal
that didn't have a scrollback buffer (i.e. a console).

Reference(s):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977561
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-library-miscellaneous-tweaks,1
. screen program refactor
commit 0fe393ff27
. scrollback buffer disabled
commit dedaf6e1a8
. sigwinch management defines
commit adca737758
commit 4f33b6b8c5

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit is contained in:
Jim Warner
2013-06-28 00:00:00 -05:00
committed by Jaromir Capik
parent ce5e995921
commit 5c974ff44d
2 changed files with 12 additions and 7 deletions

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//#define INSP_SAVEBUF /* preserve 'Insp_buf' contents in a file */
//#define INSP_SLIDE_1 /* when scrolling left/right don't move 8 */
//#define OFF_HST_HASH /* use BOTH qsort+bsrch vs. hashing scheme */
//#define OFF_SCROLLBK /* disable tty emulators scrollback buffer */
//#define OFF_STDIOLBF /* disable our own stdout _IOFBF override */
//#define PRETEND2_5_X /* pretend we're linux 2.5.x (for IO-wait) */
//#define PRETEND8CPUS /* pretend we're smp with 8 ticsers (sic) */