BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Jeff Crowell
Bug report below. Let me know if you need anything else Product: zsh/MinTTY Version: zsh 5.0.2 (i686-pc-cygwin) Component: In which component does the bug exist? Platform: i686-pc-cygwin OS: Windows 8, probably all versions of windows Summary: Pasting certain characters into MinTTY

Re: BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Jeff Crowell, 23.04.2013 18:58:07: 1) Copy http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f63b/index.htm 2) paste into ZSH 3) press enter Actual Results: MinTTY hangs and does not respond Similar happens when doing: cat /bin/gdb.exe for example. Something seems to overflow. -- Helmut

Re: BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:03:03PM +0200, Helmut Karlowski wrote: Jeff Crowell, 23.04.2013 18:58:07: 1) Copy http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f63b/index.htm 2) paste into ZSH 3) press enter Actual Results: MinTTY hangs and does not respond Similar happens when doing: cat

Re: BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Andy Koppe
On 23 April 2013 17:58, Jeff Crowell wrote: Bug report below. Let me know if you need anything else Product: zsh/MinTTY Version: zsh 5.0.2 (i686-pc-cygwin) Component: In which component does the bug exist? Platform: i686-pc-cygwin OS: Windows 8, probably all versions of windows

Re: BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Andy Koppe
On 23 April 2013 18:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: Similar happens when doing: cat /bin/gdb.exe for example. Something seems to overflow. I can reproduce that one. 'ps' output shows that 'cat' and 'mintty' are both waiting for output to finish, i.e. they're deadlocked waiting for each other's

Re: BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/23/2013 4:07 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: On 23 April 2013 18:32, Christopher Faylor wrote: snip For now Just don't do that. Quite. Or just kill the cat. I thought curiosity killed the cat. ;-) -- Larry _ A: Yes. Q:

Re: BUG: Pasting Smiling Cat with Heart-Shaped Eyes into ZSH locks MinTTY, requires force close

2013-04-23 Thread Helmut Karlowski
Andy Koppe, 23.04.2013 22:07:11: Quite. Or just kill the cat. That's a solution in case of /bin/cat. But also any other process hanging that way can only be killed -9, no other signal can be caught by it (e.g. alarm), or is there a way to keep it going somehow? -- Helmut Karlowski --