From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Alan J Third <alan@idiocy.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, 2148@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#2148: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:48:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aITTV-0001av-SE@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wprh5ai6.fsf@galloway.idiocy.org> (message from Alan J Third on Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:34:57 +0000)
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Decades ago, I encountered on some systems that sending input
to a pty would get hung because the tty's input buffer was full.
I implemented the ^D to get the input delivered.
The right fix is to change the implementation of ptys.
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Dr Richard Stallman
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-11 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-07 4:48 bug#2148: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters Chong Yidong
2009-04-07 14:09 ` bug#2148: " Stefan Monnier
2009-04-07 14:22 ` Chong Yidong
2009-04-07 15:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-04-08 18:33 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-02 3:20 ` Richard Addison-Wood
2014-10-19 14:18 ` Dorish Apira
2014-10-22 1:11 ` Alexis
2016-01-10 22:34 ` bug#2148: " Alan J Third
2016-01-11 3:48 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2016-01-13 20:50 ` Alan J Third
2016-01-13 21:11 ` Alan J Third
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