Bug#4307: telnet and 256+ character pastes
Package: netstd
Version: 2.06-1
I pasted a 256 character string from my Emacs into an xterm running
`telnet localhost' and it froze. I did the same with a 257 character
string and it also froze, but didn't echo the 257th character.
255 characters did not freeze it.
Connecting to other Debian systems via telnet also displays this
behaviour; but rlogin does not display this behaviour. ^] quit still
worked. It's these two thins that make me believe it's the telnet
daemon that is at fault.
muskogee:richard$ uname -a
Linux muskogee 2.0.13 #1 Tue Aug 20 18:45:22 BST 1996 i486
muskogee:richard$ ldd /usr/bin/telnet
libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18
muskogee:richard$ ldd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
libncurses.so.3.0 => /lib/libncurses.so.3.0
libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5.2.18
muskogee:richard$ dpkg -l libc5
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii libc5 5.2.18-9 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time libr
muskogee:richard$ dpkg -l ncurses3.0
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii ncurses3.0 1.9.9e-1 Video terminal manipulation: shared librarie
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Richard Kettlewell richard@greenend.org.uk richard@elmail.co.uk
http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/
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