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On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 08:03:48PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 03:11:06PM -0700, Josh Stone wrote:
>>I've discovered a deadlock in Cygwin which is pretty easy to
>>reproduce.?? This seems to happen on all of the console windows I can
>>find, except for running in a normal cmd.exe.  All of these are
>>affected though: xterm, rxvt, mintty, puttycyg+cthelper, and putty
>>localhost -> cygwin sshd.
>
>I can duplicate this.  I'll look into fixing it ASAP.

It took me a while to remember that this is a long standing bug.  I
think it is possible to fix thanks to the changes in Cygwin 1.7 but it
isn't a trivial fix.  I will still poke at this as I have time but
it may require a minor rewrite of the tty layer to get right.

cgf

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