In history, I used Red Hat from 5.2 till 6.2, then I switched over to Mandrake. However, with Mandrake (including 8.2) I sometimes have the effect that an application doesn't get killed, but instead eats 100% of cpu time.
This happens to many console based applications, but one way to reproduce it: Install telnet, telnet into your own box, start ntsysv, kill the connection. Open X-Windows, open a console, start ntsysv, close the window by clicking the X button on the window. Other applications are our self-compiled ones, or icpcon (a configuration program for ICP Vortex RAID controllers). This app is statically linked (get it from http://www.vortex.de/ftp/download/rdrnrsrz/linux/icpcon.gz, it run's even when you don't have such a controller installed). The strange thing: this happens mostly with ncurses-based applications, but not with all. "mc", the midnight commander, works very well. As I said, those applications where terminated correctly on Red Hat. I'm just puzzled. Any hints?
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