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

[Corinna Vinschen]

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

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