Some programs (vi, ssh) crash when screen buffer height is big
Warren Young
wyml@etr-usa.com
Thu Aug 20 21:45:00 GMT 2015
On Aug 20, 2015, at 10:34 AM, Sous Lesquels <a9f54d2@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I don't think this message will thread correctly.
Actually, it did here.
> However, just had a completely fresh Win7 and Cygwin install
You are aware that Microsoft is giving out free Windows 10 upgrades to valid Windows 7 license holders, right?
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-upgrade
I bring it up not just because it’s the new shiny, but also because I continue to be unable to reproduce your symptom under Windows 10, and Microsoft did a huge amount of work on the Windows console in this release:
https://goo.gl/t9KXpC
I’ve also failed to reproduce your symptom under MinTTY, though you may be interested to know that the test cycle completes in about 1/12 the time here. :) (Over 2 min for cmd.exe vs about 10 sec for MinTTY.)
(You can make the test script time(1)-able by adding “-c q” to the vim command, so that it immediately quits after loading the log file.)
I did 5+ test runs under each console.
When you say “completely fresh…Cygwin”, do you mean that you didn’t even start with an archive of downloaded packages? Did you use a different package mirror?
I don’t know if this is relevant, but have you done a memtest86 (or similar) pass on that machine? Dodgy RAM could explain intermittent calloc() failures.
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