On 23 April 2013 18:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Similar happens when doing: >> >>cat /bin/gdb.exe >> >>for example. Something seems to overflow.
I can reproduce that one. 'ps' output shows that 'cat' and 'mintty' are both waiting for output to finish, i.e. they're deadlocked waiting for each other's output to be read. O 8276 6764 8276 3860 pty0 1004 20:52:17 /usr/bin/cat O 3448 1 3448 3448 ? 1004 20:34:15 /usr/bin/mintty > It's a long-standing problem for which there is no easy fix. Yep. This situation also happens if you hit a key that sends something during an ongoing cat command. I think what's happening in this particular case is that the gdb binary contains some control sequence that triggers a response to be sent by the terminal, thus triggering this issue in Cygwin's pty implementation. > For now "Just don't do that". Quite. Or just kill the cat. Andy -- 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
