On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:55:26PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Some weeks ago... Shailesh Dadure wrote: >>I am a support engineer from Microsoft trying to help my Customer >>Maziyar Samadzadeh. We have been notified by Maziyar that when they >>perform a Query on a bigger database using GREP we get the following >>error >> >>GREP: Memory Exhausted > >Just to tie up the loose ends of this thread, which kind of petered out >without any resolution: I've now notified Shailesh off-list about the >apparent bug we uncovered in the WriteConsole API(*), and suggested he >show the testcase around internally at Microsoft. I'll keep the list >posted if anything interesting transpires.
It didn't really peter out. This is a well-known problem even on linux where it is trivially easy to trigger. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the console. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-04/msg00374.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/