On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Lars Hecking wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> first, some new entries for the OS list in the README:
>
> OpenBSD 2.6 (Amiga, m68k)
> OpenBSD 2.7 (Amiga, m68k)
> NetBSD 1.4.1 (Amiga, m68k)
>
> NetBSD 1.4.2 ... well
>
> Unfortunately, the upgrade to NetBSD 1.4.2 broke blackbox. I recompiled
> and tried 0.51 and 0.60, no luck. Which is unfortunate, because blackbox
> is just perfect for an old, slow machine such as mine!
>
> Details: blackbox stops when calling top from the root menu. It takes
> a kill -CONT to get it going again. The menu entry is just top, not eg.
> xterm -e top; could that be problem? Has anyone seen this before?
yes... this is the problem... executing just plain "top" will cause it to
use the same stdin/out as blackbox, which is not always a tty... i can't
think of specific examples of how this would stop blackbox, but it's
definately a possibility... if you want to see top, run it in an xterm :)
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