Re: Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com>]

On 07/18/2014 10:48 AM, sous lesquels wrote:
>> 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
>
>> Confirmed.
>>
>> I tried up to 9999, the maximum allowed.
>>
>> This is under Windows 8.1 Pro, with Cygwin 1.7.30, both 32- and 64-bit.
>
> I was running under:
>
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.29(0.272/5/3) 2014-04-07 13:46
>
> It might have been a feature present in 1.7.29.
>
> More likely, it was a installation issue. I had cygwin1.dll with
> 1.7.29 and cygwin1.dll.new with 1.7.30. I ran setup-x86_64.exe
> multiple times and it did nothing to upgrade it (I assume it renames
> cygwin1.dll.new to cygwin1.dll, correct?). No cywgin processes were
> running otherwise. What helped is to manually reinstall "cygwin"
> package. Now that I'm at 1.7.30, all seems OK. Probably just a version
> mismatch.

This is not the recommended way of handling this situation.  You end up
with a ".new" extension if the DLL was in use at the time of your upgrade.
In this case, setup*.exe schedules a replace of your existing DLL with the
".new" version on reboot.  So if you find such a file on your system, the
sanctioned resolution to this is to reboot.

> As a side topic, I did not get a mail with your (Corinna / Warren)
> replies, just a digest, and could not reply to it. Not sure how it
> will thread. Is there a way to somehow specify which post to reply to
> in the body of the mail, so that it threads as I want? As per
> https://sourceware.org/lists.html#what-software, ezmlm-idx is used and
> as per http://untroubled.org/ezmlm/faq/How-threading-works.html#How-threading-works
> it threads by subject, not using In-Reply-To or so. And even if it
> did, I cannot specify headers via Gmail (firewall, cannot use other
> email clients unfortunately). If not a simple answer, I'll open a
> separate thread.

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