Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2014-07-16 Thread sous lesquels
Environment CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.29(0.272/5/3) 2014-04-07 13:46 Windows 7 Steps to reproduce the issue: - With vi.exe Execute the following bash script: #!/bin/bash for i in {1..123}; do echo -e "\033[5A\033[50C\033[0;35mhello\033[0m" head -n1000 /var/log/setup.log done vi /var/log/

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2014-07-16 Thread sous lesquels
producible with low values (e.g. I tried with 100, 200, 500 and it seemed to work - not sure if it would have broken later, but it's not always reproducible as it is with 1000+) On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:10 PM, sous lesquels wrote: > Environment > > CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.29(0.2

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2014-07-18 Thread sous lesquels
> It's not reproducible for me. I just tried your ssh scenario with a > 1000 and 2000 line buffers and it works fine for me every time, be it > with Cygwin 1.7.30 or the latest snapshot. I also raised the number of > loops. Is it possible that you're suffering a BLODA(*) problem? > > > Thanks, >

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2014-07-18 Thread sous lesquels
Thanks Larry. > This is not the recommended way of handling this situation. You end up > with a ".new" extension if the DLL was in use at the time of your upgrade. > In this case, setup*.exe schedules a replace of your existing DLL with the > ".new" version on reboot. So if you find such a file

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2014-07-18 Thread sous lesquels
> If you can wait for the digest, you can simply open the selected message from > the digest and reply to that, and it will be threaded. Using Gmail, it doesn't seem to offer a way to see them as separate mails or reply to a particular one, though. Oh, well... > If you can't wait, then read the me

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-20 Thread Sous Lesquels
--- Prelude I don't think this message will thread correctly. This is a reply to this message: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-07/msg00191.html Message-ID: <20140717082423.gb15...@calimero.vinschen.de> I unsubscribed from the list in order not to get emails for the whole list (most of which I

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-20 Thread Sous Lesquels
Thanks Warren. > Actually, it did here. I see it separate, at least in a Web browser: - This thread: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-08/threads.html#00347 - The original thread I tried to reply to: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-07/threads.html#00185 My intention was to reply to this messa

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-21 Thread Sous Lesquels
Thanks Warren. > After sending the window full-screen, lookee lookee: > > 2014/11/04 17:40:58 Ending cygwin install >112 [main] vi 4424 C:\cygwin64\bin\vi.exe: *** fatal error - cmalloc would > have returned NULL > /x: line 6: 4424 Hangup vi -c q /var/log/setup.log > > It ha

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-25 Thread Sous Lesquels
Thanks Philip - I agree with that and it's even nicely described in ConEmu docs: http://conemu.github.io/en/CygwinAnsi.html While it might be a hack to get this working, mintty is not something that should be run in ConEmu, as both are terminal emulators. Anyway, I guess the question is - is Cyg

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-27 Thread Sous Lesquels
Thanks cyg Simple. > It depends on the level of support you want from this list In this case, if Cygwin is supposed to work with the regular windows console? If mintty was created due to Cygwin *not working as expected* on default windows console, that's a good answer, as long as it's correct. If

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-27 Thread Sous Lesquels
Thanks Andrey. > You're misunderstanding Cygwin, if you are asking such questions. Care to clarify how am I misunderstanding Cygwin? > If you could convince ConEmu developers to provide adequate TTY functionality, You mean Microsoft? You can reproduce the exact same issue with the native window

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-28 Thread Sous Lesquels
Thanks Larry. > I think you're misunderstanding where the limitation is coming from. I don't think I'm misunderstanding anything - I was actually thinking along the same lines that you just wrote. I feel that with increasing monitors sizes == increasing window sizes, it might happen more often,

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-28 Thread Sous Lesquels
> I'm not in the mood of retyping the POSIX standard for you. But you are obviously always in the mood to be unhelpful... > I'm personally acquainted with the creator of ConEmu and he's not working for > Microsoft. And this breaks without ConEmu. If you forget I said that I use ConEmu and run m

Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

2015-08-28 Thread Sous Lesquels
Thanks Larry. > OK, good. We're on the same page then. :-) Indeed we are :) > it's hard to say there's going to be a good solution coming from Cygwin > itself soon, unless there's some developer that wants to chase this in the > near-term. I certainly hope so. At least, to peek and determin