Command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by Linux to provide information about the status of entries in its process table.
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If top were invoked under the 'screen' window manager,
writing the terminfo string 'exit_ca_mode' at top exit
would not restore the display to the state existing at
the time top was started. That's what occurs normally.
The net result of that failure was a corrupted screen.
However, there is a 'screen' configuration option that
will produce proper 'rmcup' behavior, but it is off by
default. That screencr option is known as 'altscreen'.
I stumbled across this provision by cloning the screen
git repository then searching for references to 'cup'.
If 'altscreen on' had been in either the /etc/screenrc
or the $HOME/.screenrc configuration file, my poor old
top would never have been accused of such corruptions.
Of course, the Programming Gods decree that any simple
solution for our problem must always be revealed last.
So before discovering that rc option, another approach
was taken involving top only. With just a little extra
refactoring of top display logic he was made immune to
any such quirk in the implementation of 'smcup/rmcup'.
I always feel good about any enhancement that actually
reduces the total number of lines of code. Even though
this change involved mostly rearranging some logic, it
yielded one less line (can't judge by diffstat because
of braces & notes). Anyway, rather than requiring some
change to a screenrc file, now we are self-sufficient.
Reference(s):
procps ---------------------------------------------
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962022
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-procpsng337-no-screen-cleaning-at-exit,3
. top : disable tty scrollback buffer to improve SIGWINCH
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contrib | ||
Documentation | ||
include | ||
lib | ||
misc | ||
po | ||
proc | ||
ps | ||
testsuite | ||
top | ||
.gitignore | ||
AUTHORS | ||
autogen.sh | ||
ChangeLog | ||
configure.ac | ||
COPYING | ||
COPYING.LIB | ||
free.1 | ||
free.c | ||
kill.1 | ||
Makefile.am | ||
NEWS | ||
pgrep.1 | ||
pgrep.c | ||
pkill.1 | ||
pmap.1 | ||
pmap.c | ||
pwdx.1 | ||
pwdx.c | ||
README | ||
skill.1 | ||
skill.c | ||
slabtop.1 | ||
slabtop.c | ||
snice.1 | ||
sysctl.8 | ||
sysctl.c | ||
sysctl.conf | ||
sysctl.conf.5 | ||
tload.1 | ||
tload.c | ||
uptime.1 | ||
uptime.c | ||
vmstat.8 | ||
vmstat.c | ||
w.1 | ||
w.c | ||
watch.1 | ||
watch.c |
COMPATIBILITY This code is intended for use with Linux 2.6.xx, 3.x and hopefully all future kernels. INSTALLATION If you are using git version of the project you need extra step. ./autogen.sh After that, and everyone using .tar.xz version of procps-ng, can do normal build. Read './configure --help' to select options for your needs. ./configure make make install If you have DejaGNU installed you can run optional test suite. make check HOW TO CONTRIBUTE See Documentation/BUGS file. PACKAGING If you are a downstream maintainer (packager) for a Linux distribution, please avoid causing troubles. This section applies to you. Avoid maintaining distribution specific patches. Send your patches to upstream, where they are at least reviewed, if not included. Please forward bug reports. If your bug database is public and busy enough to bother with, please make this known. Follow Debian's lead in making the bug database easy to comment on via email without need for an account. For normal packages, ensure that you do not add debugging flags to the CFLAGS variable. UPSTREAM & BUG REPORTS procps-ng <procps@freelists.org>