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Re: mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream
- From: Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 22:45:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream
- References: <CAP_kE8UJZYf2ebrpDSKtkTrN2p0yT997+y+Z5tr978LNdbTekw at mail dot gmail dot com>
On 13 May 2013 22:35, Adrian H wrote:
> I inadvertently dumped a binary stream to the terminal and it froze
> mintty. When I tried to kill the process dumping the data, it
> wouldn't die, even when using -9 switch. When I used Process Explorer
> to kill it, it died and mintty resumed working.
>
> I narrowed the stream down to 370 'lines' by catting the file and
> heading and tailing its output. For some reason, I wasn't able to
> narrow it down any further.
>
> This issue doesn't occur within cmd running bash (bash is what is
> running through mintty when this occurred).
>
> I've also tested it with xterm and rxvt and they also froze the
> terminal, so it appears to be something to do with the terminal
> interpreter which may be shared across these three terminal
> programmes.
>
> I've tried to attached the compressed narrowed down stream for you
> viewing pleasure, but this mailing list doesn't support it. If anyone
> wants to debug this further, just tell me where to put the binary file
> and you can do your thing.
>
> Not sure what that stream is doing to the terminal to do that to the
> process, but I don't think it should be doing that.
>
> Any idea what's happening?
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-04/msg00362.html
Andy
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