top: enable screen contents preservation at end-of-job
The title of this commit is actually quite misleading.
Were it more accurate, it would at least mention a tty
emulator's scrollback buffer, which was the cumulation
of a long pursuit to reduce the SIGWINCH overhead when
a window manager carelessly floods an application with
that signal *while* a user is still resizing a window!
Disabling and enabling that scrollback buffer resulted
in the final top display replaced with original screen
contents, a phenomenon acknowledged at the time but it
also represented a user interface change which has now
produced the first request for return to old behavior.
After the SIGWINCH dust settled, another problem arose
regarding behaviors under the 'screen' window manager.
In response, top was refactored a bit to avoid display
corruption. That was before discovering 'screen' could
duplicate the scrollback buffer behavior top expected.
As it turns out, the 'screen' refactoring had probably
made scrollback buffer manipulation unnecessary. Still
one could argue that a window should not be allowed to
scroll while a constantly updating program was active.
The solution represented in this commit returns former
behavior at program end (retaining top's last screen).
And if we ever wish to disable scrollback buffers, the
associated logic was retained but made conditional. It
is not reflected in configure.ac but might be someday.
Lastly, this commit corrects cursor positioning when a
^C is issued under 'Fields Management' at any terminal
that didn't have a scrollback buffer (i.e. a console).
Reference(s):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977561
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-library-miscellaneous-tweaks,1
. screen program refactor
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. scrollback buffer disabled
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dedaf6e1a81738ff08ee8e8523871e12f555ad6d
. sigwinch management defines
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adca737758e5afc7be344a736953931894cbc19f
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Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>