80296 – procps top(1) breaks terminal when sorting first column

Bug 80296 - procps top(1) breaks terminal when sorting first column

Summary: procps top(1) breaks terminal when sorting first column

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High minor (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2005-02-01 00:42 UTC by Andreas Kling
Modified:	2005-02-01 15:28 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Patch for procps-3.2.5 (procps-3.2.5-col1sort.patch,886 bytes, patch) 2005-02-01 00:46 UTC, Andreas Kling	Details \| Diff
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Description Andreas Kling 2005-02-01 00:42:48 UTC

When sorting processes by the leftmost column in 'top', the escape sequence used to highlight the column is chopped off and breaks the terminal.

Curtis Doty posted a fix[1] for it on the procps mailing list in november last year, but it has yet to appear in a release.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6042978&forum_id=12454

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. 'top'
2. 'x'
3. '<' over and over until you hit the spot.

Comment 1 Andreas Kling 2005-02-01 00:46:02 UTC

Created attachment 50103 [details, diff]
Patch for procps-3.2.5

Curtis's patch redone for procps-3.2.5, should you decide to update the
package.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-01 15:28:01 UTC

thanks, added 3.2.5 to portage along with your attached patch !