Re: some more patches

sleep 10 &
top -p <pid of sleep>
make sure sleep process is visible (e.g. turn idle off)
type ?
type ?
(wait 10 seconds or so for sleep to exit)
escape


 signal 11 (SEGV) was caught by top, please
send bug reports to <[email protected]>
[1]+  Done                    sleep 10

Very repeatable with 3.3.16 top

 - Craig


On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 09:32, Jim Warner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 12/28/20 4:06 PM, Craig Small wrote:
> > Both sets of patches are pushed, thanks.
>
> Thanks Craig.
>
> > By some funny coincidence, I came across the SEGV with a non-displayable
> > process bug you recently fixed.  I was using prctl-emoji to test that
> > the UTF stuff was working but was looking in the help screen and was
> > using the Debian 3.3.16 top not the one in the build directory.  Exiting
> > the help screen after the process exited made top SEGV.
>
> I'm not familiar with prctl-emoji.  Is that from the MS Bing images?
>
> > Happy to report the top in both master and newlib don't do this. Funny
> > how something that has been there for a decade got tripped up by two
> > different people in a matter of a few weeks. I wasn't trying to crash
> > top, just checking it did UTF-8 ok.
>
> Anyway, could you describe in more detail the steps you took to cause
> that SEGV.  I want to make sure that I didn't just get lucky with the
> current versions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
> p.s. I may have 1 more patch in the same vein, but am still weighing it.
>
>