Re: Large pastes into readline enabled programs causes breakagefrom v2.6.31 onwards

From: One Thousand Gnomes
Date: Sat Nov 23 2013 - 19:30:23 EST


> 7) Rescan line discipline buffer when changing from non-canonical to canonical
> mode. The real problem with this approach (besides the inefficiency) is that this
> solution could break some (admittedly unknown) program that contrived to exchange
> data in non-canonical mode but read in canonical mode (just not exceeding the
> line discipline buffer limit).

See bugzilla 55981, 55991 btw

Alan
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