On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:46:07PM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > >I can use the Cygwin cmd.exe window to ssh to a Debian/unstable system, > >and run top, without a problem. I can then ssh from there to a Debian > >sarge system, and reproduce the problem. > > > >The terminfo descriptions are the same. This suggests a bug in > >ncurses, between the 5.4-4 and 5.5-1 packages. That's from the > >20040320 patch to now, a rather long time. > > It's still unlikely there, since top is a terminfo application rather than > a curses application. Aside from tinkering with sgr0, terminfo interface > has been very stable. > > If it'd been the previous release of Debian, I'd point at top which did > have this sort of bug in that timeframe. But it's unlikely that a 3.1 > system would have an old version of top. (On the other hand, it's > possible that the bug is still present since cygwin seems to be the only > common terminal type that would have exposed the older bug).
Ah, you're suggesting it's the different version of top. I hadn't thought to try that. I'll need to experiment... -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
