X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:03:10 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GREP: Memory Exhausted Message-ID: <20090512010309.GA8065@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <28A2EAFEF380B447AF9E3FBFA6387D3189704E525F@AA-EXMSG-C425.southpacific.corp.microsoft.com> <4A08ACDE.9050805@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A08ACDE.9050805@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 11:55:26PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >Some weeks ago... Shailesh Dadure wrote: >>I am a support engineer from Microsoft trying to help my Customer >>Maziyar Samadzadeh. We have been notified by Maziyar that when they >>perform a Query on a bigger database using GREP we get the following >>error >> >>GREP: Memory Exhausted > >Just to tie up the loose ends of this thread, which kind of petered out >without any resolution: I've now notified Shailesh off-list about the >apparent bug we uncovered in the WriteConsole API(*), and suggested he >show the testcase around internally at Microsoft. I'll keep the list >posted if anything interesting transpires. It didn't really peter out. This is a well-known problem even on linux where it is trivially easy to trigger. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the console. http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-04/msg00374.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/