From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 19 11:23:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA13007 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:23:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA12980 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:23:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id UAA13996; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:22:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id UAA23232; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:14:21 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 20:14:21 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: wosch@campa.panke.de.cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfram Schneider) Cc: freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: ports/2756: top causes segmentation fault References: <199702180900.BAA14810@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Wolfram Schneider on Feb 19, 1997 02:26:40 +0100 Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > Recompile top. top is very system-dependant, and since you're running > > a SNAP, your first aid should be recompilation. > > > > top should probably live in the base system, not in ports. I've > > already removed /usr/local/bin/top on my machines at work since > > /usr/local is shared, but top is by no means sharable at all. > > Yes, we should import top(1) into the base system (src/contrib/top). > The top sources are only 120KB. Are there any contradictionary opinions? Even Suns ship with top(1) by default, and given its deep internal knowledge of the kernel structures, the ports version is pretty useless for a machine that is tracking -current (or even one that is upgraded by the official releases when forgetting to always upgrade to the most recent version of top as well). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)