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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:32:15 -0600
From: Steve O <bub AT io DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Want to release 1.3.16
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On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.

I'm not familiar with how Windows deals with it's buffers, but does 
that mean that every tty allocates 64K of "kernel" memory?

Also, here's a test to try before releasing:

in an rxvt, or xterm:
cat /bin/cygwin1.dll

This hangs for me with the CVS version as of 8pm 20021122 on XP.

-steve