PuTTY bug win-serial-hang

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summary: Serial backend on Windows hangs on simultaneous input/output
class: bug: This is clearly an actual problem we want fixed.
present-in: 0.60
fixed-in: r8410 2009-01-13 (0.61) (0.62) (0.63) (0.64)

PuTTY 0.60 for Windows can lock up when using the serial backend and there is simultaneous input and output.

For instance, doing more /var/adm/messages to a Unix system and pressing and holding 'j' to scroll is reported to be sufficient to cause the session to lock up.

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(last revision of this bug record was at 2010-12-29 00:11:32 +0000)