[Crash-utility] crash CPU bound waiting for user response

I am running crash in a shell window of JOVE. JOVE is an EMACS-subset editor. crash isn't really happy. Here is an example: crash> task WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - (press RETURN) ==> It does not say in what way the terminal is not fully functional. That seems like a bug. ==> Worse: while it is awaiting my RETURN, it is burning 100% of the CPU! Here is what "ps laxgwf" says about the crash process and its child. F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND 4 0 4426 4406 25 0 416812 332764 - R+ pts/5 80:36 | | \_ crash --readnow /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3228.fc7/vmlinux /var/crash/2007-07-02-13:42/vmcore 0 0 4989 4426 18 0 73976 740 - S+ pts/5 0:00 | | \_ /usr/bin/less -E -X -Ps -- MORE -- forward\: <SPACE>, <ENTER> or j backward\: b or k quit\: q strace of the crash process shows an infinite sequence of: wait4(4989, 0x7fffcd9cae90, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0 wait4(4989, 0x7fffcd9cae90, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0 wait4(4989, 0x7fffcd9cae90, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0 wait4(4989, 0x7fffcd9cae90, WNOHANG, NULL) = 0 This is very wasteful. There are other ways to get into this state. Other places less is being used and is waiting. Probably wherever less is used even if it isn't waiting. I just tested: this problem exists when using a normal xterm.