Re: top and no stdin
Erick Branderhorst writes:
>Package: procps
>Version: 0.97-4
>
>Running top as a regular user says
>top: stdin is not there
>: permission denied
>
>Why?
I can't reproduce that error my systems. (I'm always logged in as a regular user)
bora:~$ dpkg --list source modules procps
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Rev Description
+++-============-=========-====-===============================================
ii source 1.2.13 4 Linux kernel source.
ii modules 1.2.8 1 Linux module utilities.
ii procps 0.97 4 The /proc file system utilities.
Just guessing: maybe top reuses stdin on /proc ? I didn't look into the sources
though.
-- Siggy (the middle S.)
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