On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:55:46PM -0400, Andrew Moise wrote: > 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 hmm - officially the kernal has no bugs. In practice, its behavior alters from one snapshot to the next. But #243314 is perhaps related to this. Mostly I've been using the 2.4.18, etc. (I did some testing for a 2.6.4 kernel but didn't see the problem as reported, but it's on my list until I have a large enough time slot to finish rewriting a chunk of xterm to better handle bursts of output). > reproduction case, but ptys don't play well enough with cat/echo/etc for > me to do it right now. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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