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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 18:54:58 +0000
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Subject: Re: Tried mintty but it locks-up on enabling "Copy on select"
From: Andy Koppe <andy.koppe@gmail.com>
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> Maybe a known issue.
>
> Just tried mintty 0.3.5:
>
> Options->Mouse->Copy on select
>
> mintty becomes unresponsive and I have to kill it.
> The virtual set size goes to 450megabytes

That's a new one actually. Can you reproduce it? If it's not too much
bother, any details about the bug and your system would be
appreciated. The ~/.minttyrc file might be helpful too.

> After killing it it leaves behind a bash.exe which also has to be killed.

Yep, if it crashes, the child process won't get killed. But of course
it's not supposed to crash. :)

Andy

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