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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:24:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:10:44PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >> I was kind of hoping (even though I know it is fruitless) for more
> >> feedback from the other people lurking in this list.
> >
> >Well, I'm glad to help, but as I'm the only one who sent feedback on this
> >so far, it would be pointless to send more, wouldn't it?
>
> Yes.  I appreciate your efforts.  This was a major change to low level code
> and really needed more testing effort put into it, though.
>
> My "solution" to this problem was just to use large OS pipe buffers for ttys.
> That seems to "solve" the problem on NT4 and XP.  I didn't try it on any
> Windows 9x variant, though.
> cgf

How large of a buffer are we talking about?  I've tested Steve's patch
with up to 60k of text pasted at one time.  This was on Win2k, btw.

Also, the buffer size increase may be the reason for this bug report:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-11/msg01220.html
	Igor
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