Hi again,
I've done some digging and this is a known/fixed bug in procps version 3.3.10.
This is not backported to the latest 14.04.x in Ubuntu, and I believe it to be a severe enough bug to warrant such efforts.
FYI:
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-Escape-doesnt-abort-kill-command,1
Hi again,
I've done some digging and this is a known/fixed bug in procps version 3.3.10.
This is not backported to the latest 14.04.x in Ubuntu, and I believe it to be a severe enough bug to warrant such efforts.
FYI:
http:// www.freelists. org/post/ procps/ top-Escape- doesnt- abort-kill- command, 1