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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:30:32 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Want to release 1.3.16
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:24:45PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>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.

Use the source, Luke.

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

A bug report for 1.3.15 caused by code I added last week?  I don't think
so.  There was no hint that this was related a tty, either.

cgf