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bug#2148: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 c
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#2148: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters |
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Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:48:57 -0500 |
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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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