Bug 211957 - top goes into hard loop on xterm exit
Summary: top goes into hard loop on xterm exit
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 211956
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: procps
Version: 4.4
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Karel Zak
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-10-24 04:23 UTC by Major
Modified: 2007-11-17 01:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-10-24 10:17:13 UTC
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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 ***
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