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From: Derek Fawcus <dfawcus@cisco.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] several things
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:44:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081014214453.GA1599@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2efe70578a028bec7b9068c6c9be849e@terzarima.net>

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:15:15PM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> i'm surprised at any actual name longer than 512 (or even 256), not so much for plan 9, but
> because linux systems still seem to have that tiny TTY limit on the size of an input line,

err - I seem to recall reading some linux pty/tty source that implied a larger limit in
canonical mode - 4k/8k?  But that assumes the shells in question _use_ cannonical mode.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-14 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-13 21:35 Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-13 22:35 ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-14  8:10   ` Rudolf Sykora
2008-10-14  9:30     ` Steve Simon
2008-10-14 12:22     ` Yaroslav
2008-10-14 13:15       ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-14 21:44         ` Derek Fawcus [this message]
2008-10-14 22:28           ` Charles Forsyth
2008-10-15  9:42   ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-10-15 12:17     ` erik quanstrom
2008-10-18  7:26       ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-10-20 14:09         ` Yaroslav
2008-10-20 17:21           ` Roman V. Shaposhnik
2008-10-13 22:51 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-10-14  3:07 erik quanstrom
2008-10-14 13:03 erik quanstrom
2008-10-14 14:07 ` Kernel Panic

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