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Some more (very obscure) conditions where a suspension or program end might embed the shell prompt within top output have been uncovered beyond the 2 already known. We had already covered some suspend/end contingencies: 1. the users were using the 'fields management' screen 2. the users were prompted for any line oriented input However, there remained some situations where ^Z or ^C could still produce a misplaced cursor + shell prompt: 3. the 'g' command while waiting for the window choice 4. the 'W' command if about to overwrite an old rcfile 5. the '=' command when exploiting the Inspect feature 6. the period during which any error message was shown But, even when all those bases are covered there still remains a remote possibility that such interrupts will occur during a top repaint cycle. So rather than throw yet more code at these self-inflicted problems perhaps it is better if we just throw in the proverbial towel. Thus, I'll take the only sane approach and restore the results expected ever since top's inception and before scrollback buffers entered the picture. Namely, with a ^Z or ^C the cursor will be placed on the final screen row. That usually means it will immediately follow the last output line but it may follow many blank lines if the user interrupts top when *not* on the main screen. Reference(s): . expanded repositioning (for line oriented input) commit33104a2bcc. introduced repositioning (for fields management) commit5c974ff44d. scrollback buffers (the cursor handling changes) commitdedaf6e1a8Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
COMPATIBILITY
This code is intended for use with Linux 2.6.xx, 3.x and
hopefully all future kernels.
INSTALLATION
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./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
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make check
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