On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 10:34:01AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 24 Jan 2023 at 17:18:17 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-01-22 15:35:08 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't work. > > > The xterm's pty's input buffer is full, and it simply ignores all keyboard > > > input from that point forward. > > > > They are actually not ignored, but delayed by the terminal emulator. > > This is an issue because Ctrl-C (the intr character) is normally > > taken into account immediately (with a SIGINT generation), even if > > earlier characters have not been read yet by the command. > > > > And this is apparently the same for the other special characters > > as defined by stty. > > How did you determine that they're actually received by the terminal > emulator after the buffer is full? IOW where are they being stored? Actually, AFAIK, its not the terminal emulator, but the PTY which does that translation. So your argument would be valid if there's something /before/ the PTY doing the buffering. Cheers -- t
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