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23.1; EOT / ^D inserted into comint input string

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From: David Fox <ddssff <at> gmail.com>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: 6800-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#6800: 23.1; EOT / ^D inserted into comint input string
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 11:40:03 -0700

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On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> wrote:

> 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
>

I do know that commands longer than 4096 characters are truncated in emacs
24.3.1

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