Re: Want to release 1.3.16

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:24:45PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:10:44PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> >> I was kind of hoping (even though I know it is fruitless) for more
> >> >> feedback from the other people lurking in this list.
> >> >
> >> >Well, I'm glad to help, but as I'm the only one who sent feedback on this
> >> >so far, it would be pointless to send more, wouldn't it?
> >>
> >> Yes.  I appreciate your efforts.  This was a major change to low level code
> >> and really needed more testing effort put into it, though.
> >>
> >> My "solution" to this problem was just to use large OS pipe buffers for ttys.
> >> That seems to "solve" the problem on NT4 and XP.  I didn't try it on any
> >> Windows 9x variant, though.
> >> cgf
> >
> >How large of a buffer are we talking about?  I've tested Steve's patch
> >with up to 60k of text pasted at one time.  This was on Win2k, btw.
>
> Use the source, Luke.

Right. :-)
So I'll still get a deadlock if I paste more than 64k.  Will test that
tomorrow.

> >Also, the buffer size increase may be the reason for this bug report:
> >http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01220.html
>
> A bug report for 1.3.15 caused by code I added last week?  I don't think
> so.  There was no hint that this was related a tty, either.

Oops.  For some reason I thought he compiled his own DLL from CVS...
Sorry about that.
	Igor
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