Re: ncurses?

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: ncurses?
Date	2019-07-03 14:30 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 05:45:32PM -0600, ghe wrote:
> When I run one of these programs and 'ps aux' I see lynx or alsamixer or
> aptitude, but no ncurses. I'm not sure what, if anything, that means.
> But I expected to see ncurses.

ncurses is a C library.  A C program like lynx may be linked against
this library, and you would (usually) see that with ldd:

wooledg:~$ ldd /usr/bin/lynx | grep ncurses
        libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f85b0929000)

A library isn't a separate process, and you won't see it listed in the
output of ps or top.

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ncurses? ghe <ghe@slsware.net> - 2019-07-03 01:50 +0200
  Re: ncurses? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2019-07-03 02:30 +0200
    Re: ncurses? dickey@invisible-island.net - 2019-07-03 16:40 +0200
  Re: ncurses? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-07-03 04:40 +0200
  Re: ncurses? andreimpopescu@gmail.com - 2019-07-03 08:00 +0200
  Re: ncurses? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-03 12:00 +0200
  Re: ncurses? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-03 14:30 +0200

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