mintty, xterm and rxvt freezes when displaying a binary stream

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 05:39:17AM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote:
>On 14 May 2013 01:23, Jack Adrian Zappa wrote:
>>In any case, how does Linux deal with this issue?
>
>I don't know.  A buffer on the terminal's side of the pty?  Automatic
>deadlock detection in the kernel, causing one of the blocking writes to
>fail?

More likely, I suspect that Linux does not try to use Windows pipes
to emulate ptys and so does not suffer from buffer stalls and races.

cgf

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