On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 02:50:43PM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote: >Hi all, > >I just tried to paste a rather large snippet of text into mintty (320kB) >that turns out to contain no newlines. The mintty window is completely >locked now, and the Windows clipboard is unusable. > >The command was simple: > >$ cat > foo.txt > >Inserting a few thousand line endings at regular intervals allows the >operation to complete in about a second. I suspect bash caused the >problem (attempting to buffer up a whole line befor sending it on?), but >I don't think it should be able to bring down the terminal like that. > >Thoughts?
Yep. "That's the way it works" Someone reports something like this every few months. You undoubtedly hit a limitation of Cygwin's pty handling. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
