GNU bug report logs - #6800
23.1; EOT / ^D inserted into comint input string

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Fox <ddssff <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:14:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 7078

Found in versions 23.1, 24.0.50, 24.0.90

Done: David Fox <ddssff <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #13 received at 6800-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 6800-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, David Fox <ddssff <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#6800: 23.1; EOT / ^D inserted into comint input string
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 19:36:52 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> When an input longer than 255 characters is typed into comint (or
>> shell) an EOT character (ascii 4, ^D) is inserted into the string.
>> This can cause an error depending how the sub process handles these
>> extra characters.  For example, GHC doesn't like it when an EOT
>> appears inside of a string:
>
> I believe this bug is fixed on the Emacs trunk (to become Emacs-24), but
> the fix may introduce other problems.  Apparently nobody knows how to
> fix it right and there is about as much as no documentation at all on
> this part of the behavior of ttys.

IIRC this code is no longer in Emacs. I'll close this bug.

-- 
Alan Third
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