Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 1996 23:22:22 -0400 | From | DarrellAE@aol ... | Subject | Re: /dev/tty1 strangeness |
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Form my original post: # After logging onto tty1 as user or root, that terminal starts loosing keystrokes
Thanks to Steven S. Dick (ssd@nevets.oau.org) who replied: > Is it possible you have two processes on tty1 both trying to read?
At first I thought this was impossible, but remembered that the top process I created in inittab:
c9:23:wait:/usr/bin/top >>/dev/tty9
This process started acting strange since upgrading to procps-1.01. With v.0.99a I was able to use keyboard commands from tty9 to control the output of top, but with v.1.01 keystrokes from tty9 were ignored. I now remember that top sometimes showed a prompt when I switched from tty1 to tty9, waiting for input (but ignoring all input from tty9).
I now think that top was reading stdin from tty1, disregarding the redirection to tty9.
My tty1 is fine when I kill top in tty9 (I have commented that line out in inittab).
Is this a bug in procps-1.01, or is there another way to redirect top to an unused tty?
Darrell A. Escola Clovis, California USA
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