Hi all Kafka-1194 has been a longstanding issue and now there seems to be a viable fix that also passes tests. I know Windows isn't a priority, but as I mentioned before, avoiding a fatal un-recoverable crash for newcomers learning Kafka is very important.
I don't have enough core Kafka expertise to judge the quality of the code, but I'm sure some of you would. Please have a look at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/6329 if you have some time Thanks! Stephane
