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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:46:48 -0800
From: Lester Ingber <ingber AT ingber DOT com>
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Cc: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: new Cygwin has memory problems? / cygwin1-20041117.dll
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cygwin1-20041117.dll, which I got from www.cygwin/snapshots/, solves a
few problems, stopping hanging in dired, ispell, and updatedb.

(The crash I experienced is getting more common in XP SP2,
BAD_POOL_HEADER (www.tweaksforgeek.com/BAD_POOL_HEADER.html)).

Lester

Christopher Faylor wrote:
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is is a problem caused by this change:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00364.html

And, then, the problem was noted here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg00904.html

The problem is that cygwin is now behaving like linux in that timed
reads from a pty/tty work correctly.  It is not behaving like linux in
that once you get an EOF on a read using stdio, you get EOF forever
after.

I've made a cygwin-specific correction to the newlib library to make
cygwin work more like linux.  I will generate a cygwin snapshot sometime
soon which should have a fix for this problem.  Keep an ey on:

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

cgf
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