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Date:	Fri, 21 Aug 2015 01:31:58 +0300
From:	Andrey Repin <anrdaemon AT yandex DOT ru>
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Greetings, Warren Young!

> On Aug 20, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Sous Lesquels <a9f54d2 AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't think this message will thread correctly.

> Actually, it did here.

>> However, just had a completely fresh Win7 and Cygwin install

> You are aware that Microsoft is giving out free Windows 10 upgrades to
> valid Windows 7 license holders, right?

And you did read the Win10 EULA, right?

>     http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade

> I bring it up not just because it’s the new shiny, but also because I
> continue to be unable to reproduce your symptom under Windows 10, and
> Microsoft did a huge amount of work on the Windows console in this release:

>     https://goo.gl/t9KXpC

That doesn't help people who don't want to install spying OS on their
computers.
And that's just one of the reasons people don't want to deal with it.

> I’ve also failed to reproduce your symptom under MinTTY, though you may be
> interested to know that the test cycle completes in about 1/12 the time
> here. :)  (Over 2 min for cmd.exe vs about 10 sec for MinTTY.)

> (You can make the test script time(1)-able by adding “-c q” to the vim
> command, so that it immediately quits after loading the log file.)

> I did 5+ test runs under each console.

> When you say “completely fresh…Cygwin”, do you mean that you didn’t even
> start with an archive of downloaded packages?  Did you use a different package mirror?

> I don’t know if this is relevant, but have you done a memtest86 (or
> similar) pass on that machine?  Dodgy RAM could explain intermittent calloc() failures.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, August 21, 2015 01:29:23

Sorry for my terrible english...

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