Re: Backwards typeahead
Steve Chapel wrote: With the cygwin 1.3.13 bash shell running in a Windows 98 SE DOS window, I've experienced that characters I've typed in while a command is running appear reversed when the command prompt appears again. I found this thread http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg01362.html from April 2001 on this subject and wondered if there is any more information on this problem. If not, I can look into debugging the problem myself, although I'll need a lot of help getting started. I've been told that the backwards typeahead is due to a bug in the OS. When the system is overloaded, keystroke interrupts are stacked up. When the interrupts are popped off the stack, the keystrokes are recognized in the reverse order they were typed. Although I fully accept this explanation, it avoids the problem with cygwin. In a DOS command prompt a dir command takes less than one second even if there are hundreds of files listed. In a 4DOS command prompt the DJGPP command ls takes a similar amount of time. But in a cygwin bash shell an ls command takes three seconds even with only a handful of files, and it overloads the system so much that interrupts need to be stacked. So again I ask for information on how this cygwin problem can be solved. It makes typeahead completely useless for me. Thanks, Steve Chapel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Backwards typeahead
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: So again I ask for information on how this cygwin problem can be solved. It makes typeahead completely useless for me. What kind of information are you hoping for? If we knew how to solve the problem it would be solved. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Backwards typeahead
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: So again I ask for information on how this cygwin problem can be solved. It makes typeahead completely useless for me. What kind of information are you hoping for? If we knew how to solve the problem it would be solved. I saw on another post that what was needed to fix the problem is someone who can reproduce it and is willing to use gdb to track down the problem. I just volunteered. Was the earlier post incorrect? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Backwards typeahead
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:55:52AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: So again I ask for information on how this cygwin problem can be solved. It makes typeahead completely useless for me. What kind of information are you hoping for? If we knew how to solve the problem it would be solved. I saw on another post that what was needed to fix the problem is someone who can reproduce it and is willing to use gdb to track down the problem. I just volunteered. Was the earlier post incorrect? Without knowing what the earlier post might be, that's rather hard to say. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Backwards typeahead
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:55:52AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: So again I ask for information on how this cygwin problem can be solved. It makes typeahead completely useless for me. What kind of information are you hoping for? If we knew how to solve the problem it would be solved. I saw on another post that what was needed to fix the problem is someone who can reproduce it and is willing to use gdb to track down the problem. I just volunteered. Was the earlier post incorrect? Without knowing what the earlier post might be, that's rather hard to say. There IS a bug in certain versions of Windows wherein fast type-ahead that occurs while the system is busy will be queued up in the incorrect order. What I do not know is if it has ever been fixed, and if so in what version. I know it exists in 95 (and probably its derivatives). It's documented in the Kermit-95 pages at columbia.edu as a windows bug. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Backwards typeahead
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:55:52AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: So again I ask for information on how this cygwin problem can be solved. It makes typeahead completely useless for me. What kind of information are you hoping for? If we knew how to solve the problem it would be solved. I saw on another post that what was needed to fix the problem is someone who can reproduce it and is willing to use gdb to track down the problem. I just volunteered. Was the earlier post incorrect? Without knowing what the earlier post might be, that's rather hard to say. OK. How about http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg01486.html That's a specific post from the specific thread I mentioned in my first post. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: Backwards typeahead
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 08:10:21PM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:55:52AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Steve Chapel wrote: So again I ask for information on how this cygwin problem can be solved. It makes typeahead completely useless for me. What kind of information are you hoping for? If we knew how to solve the problem it would be solved. I saw on another post that what was needed to fix the problem is someone who can reproduce it and is willing to use gdb to track down the problem. I just volunteered. Was the earlier post incorrect? Without knowing what the earlier post might be, that's rather hard to say. OK. How about http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg01486.html That's a specific post from the specific thread I mentioned in my first post. Ok. Yes. If it isn't obvious, then I'll repeat it. You do need to debug things to figure out what's wrong. Sorry for not reading the thread that you provided to figure out that I agreed with myself. What this has to do with your request for information still remains a mystery. If you are asking for help learning how to debug things then you probably should be as explicit as possible. I'm not volunteering to help in this regard, but maybe someone else will. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Backwards typeahead
With the cygwin 1.3.13 bash shell running in a Windows 98 SE DOS window, I've experienced that characters I've typed in while a command is running appear reversed when the command prompt appears again. I found this thread http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-04/msg01362.html from April 2001 on this subject and wondered if there is any more information on this problem. If not, I can look into debugging the problem myself, although I'll need a lot of help getting started. Thanks, Steve Chapel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
