Comment 6 for bug 19277

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:44:48PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 08:10:07PM +0200, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > clone 256376 -1
> > reassign -1 xterm
> > retitle -1 xterm: top in a super-small xterm crashes them both
> > thanks
>
> if you don't identify the version of xterm, I can only guess
> that you're talking about this, which was fixed in patch #201
> (and has been reported on this list 2-3 times since then):
>
> add a limit check for scrolling margins in a one-line screen,
> overlooked in fixes for patch #198 (Debian #297430).
Thomas could you do me (procps maintainer) a favour and run top on
a "super-small" (think it is 3 columns or less) of a known fixed xterm
and tell me if top dies?

I'm trying to see if it is/was a top problem, a xterm problem, a library
(eg ncurses) problem or some combination.

 - Craig
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