Bug 211957

Summary:	top goes into hard loop on xterm exit
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Major <major>
Component:	procps	Assignee:	Karel Zak <kzak>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Major 2006-10-24 04:23:10 UTC

Description of problem:
top run as root goes into hard loop if the xterm it is running under exits

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
procps-3.2.3-8.4

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start an xterm
2. su to root
3. run top
4. kill the xterm
  
Actual results:
top process goes into hard loop consuming 100% of available cpu

Expected results:
top process terminates

Additional info:

Comment 1 Karel Zak 2006-10-24 10:17:13 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211956 ***