Ncurses or top(1) is broken

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:46:34PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (May 12), Steve Kargl said:
> > Script started on Mon May 12 12:00:30 2008
> > mobile:kargl[201] setenv | grep TERM
> > TERM=xterm
> > mobile:kargl[202] stty -a | grep row
> > speed 38400 baud; 43 rows; 90 columns;
> > mobile:kargl[203] top 40
> > top: warning: this terminal can only display 36 processes.
> > ....
> > last pid:   893;  load averages:  0.02,  0.05,  0.06 up 0+00:28:41 12:00:59
> > 24 processes:  3 running, 21 sleeping
> > CPU:     % user,     % nice,     % system,     % interrupt,     % idle
> > Mem: 9880K Active, 7148K Inact, 22M Wired, 56K Cache, 29M Buf, 455M Free
> > Swap: 712M Total, 712M Free
> 
> What's broken?  The header in top is 7 lines (your paste omitted a
> blank line and the column headings for the process list), which means
> that a 43-line window can only display 36 processes. 

Hmmm.  Appears to be pilot error.  I was expecting more than
24 processes to be running. so the short list of displayed
processes and the recent updating of ncurses led me to a 
wrong conclusion.  Sorry about the noise.

-- 
Steve