Re: Cygwin hangs up if several keys are typed during outputting a lot of texts.

[Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>]

On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 19:18:57 +0100
Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:

> The result is the patch I attached to this mail.  I'm not sure it's the
> most feasible way to solve this problem, but it works pretty nicely for
> me, including pasting big chunks (I tried a clipboard with about 70K
> of data) while yes(1) is running.

Thank you, Corinna.

I have tried your patch. It nicely works for me, too.
And your workaround is definitely better than mine.

One small thing to be improved is here:

+      if (echo_cnt > 0
+	  && ReadFile (echo_r, outbuf, MIN (rlen, echo_cnt), &n, NULL))

echo_cnt returned by ::bytes_available() is actually
not a number of bytes available in the pipe. This is
because ::bytes_available() returns "nleft" instead
of "navail" when "nleft" is non-zero.

Therefore, "rlen" should be used here rather than
"MIN (rlen, echo_cnt)".

By the way, should we go to cygwin-developer mailing list?

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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