Bug 211957 – top goes into hard loop on xterm exit

Bug 211957 - top goes into hard loop on xterm exit

Summary:	top goes into hard loop on xterm exit

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 211956

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	procps (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.4
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Karel Zak
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2006-10-24 00:23 EDT by Major
Modified:	2007-11-16 20:14 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2006-10-24 06:17:13 EDT
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Description Major 2006-10-24 00:23:10 EDT

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

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Comment 1 Karel Zak 2006-10-24 06:17:13 EDT


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

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