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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 commit0fe393ff27. scrollback buffer disabled commitdedaf6e1a8. sigwinch management defines commitadca737758commit4f33b6b8c5Signed-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
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
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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
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For normal packages, ensure that you do not add debugging flags
to the CFLAGS variable.
UPSTREAM & BUG REPORTS
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