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Robert Collins wrote: > > Remember the bug that keeps getting odd reports? Well I've got it > happening regularly to me at home. I couldn't discuss it last night - no > internet connection :[. > > What I think is happening is that the fhander_termios edit_line method > is getting called as a signal. If any out of order queueing occurs with > signals, that would cause the percieved symptoms. > > It only happened during heavy system load - this is an emulated machine > - which is to say any swapping or high CPU would cause it. It also only > appeared to occur during type-ahead occurences. > > I'm still unable to debug, and I've never seen this happen to my win2k > partition (which is gotten at via reboot :} ) so what I can do is > limited. > > Questions for the group though: > Are whatever windows signals are before they hit cygwin time-order > guaranteed? > Are cygwin signals time-order guaranteed? > Are signal handlers expected to be reentrant? > I remember seeing this in B18 on W95 years ago. IIRC, it's a windows bug not a Cygwin bug. You can cause it to happen more readily by editing a file on a diskette since the diskette is slower in writing data. I also had the problem of Caps Lock being Shift Lock instead on the W95 box. I found no solution to either of these. Earnie. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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