On Jul 16 16:29, sous lesquels wrote: > A few more things to add: > > - This crashes under the regular Windows console, i.e. run cmd.exe, > then bash, then follow the above > - It also crashes under some other emulators (I actually noticed it > under ConEmu, see > https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/issues/detail?id=1644), > though this is likely due to the fact the regular Windows console is > used underneath > - When I said "screen buffer size", I mean the option in the Windows > console - right click on the cmd.exe taskbar, Properties, Layout tab, > Screen Buffer Size / Height - I could reproduce with 1000. It does not > seem to be reproducible with low values (e.g. I tried with 100, 200, > 500 and it seemed to work - not sure if it would have broken later, > but it's not always reproducible as it is with 1000+) It's not reproducible for me. I just tried your ssh scenario with a 1000 and 2000 line buffers and it works fine for me every time, be it with Cygwin 1.7.30 or the latest snapshot. I also raised the number of loops. Is it possible that you're suffering a BLODA(*) problem? Thanks, Corinna (*) https://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat