Subject: bug#2148: Re: In shell mode, comint-send-input seems to cut off at 254 characters

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:48:57 -0500

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Decades ago, I encountered on some systems that sending input
to a pty would get hung because the tty's input buffer was full.
I implemented the ^D to get the input delivered.

The right fix is to change the implementation of ptys.

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