Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:09:42 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mintty deadlocks when pasting very long lines of text
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 02:50:43PM -0500, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I just tried to paste a rather large snippet of text into mintty (320kB) 
>that turns out to contain no newlines. The mintty window is completely 
>locked now, and the Windows clipboard is unusable.
>
>The command was simple:
>
>$ cat > foo.txt
>
>Inserting a few thousand line endings at regular intervals allows the 
>operation to complete in about a second. I suspect bash caused the 
>problem (attempting to buffer up a whole line befor sending it on?), but 
>I don't think it should be able to bring down the terminal like that.
>
>Thoughts?

Yep.  "That's the way it works"

Someone reports something like this every few months.  You undoubtedly
hit a limitation of Cygwin's pty handling.

cgf

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