Bug#273194: xterm: Cutting and pasting 4000 characters leaves some off the end

[Andrew Moise <chops@demiurgestudios.com>]

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 11:02, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> My first inclination regarding a limit on cut/paste is the
> (system-dependent) caveat at the end of the xterm manpage:

  Hm, that sounds plausible (it would also explain #184176, which has
been slightly annoying me for years).  I never knew ptys were a
best-effort transport :-).  If that's true, then it sounds like this is
a kernel bug, right?  I tried briefly to come up with a clean
reproduction case, but ptys don't play well enough with cat/echo/etc for
me to do it right now.