Re: [Bug-readline] Large pastes into readline enabled programs causes breakage from v2.6.31 onwards

[Peter Hurley]

On 11/23/2013 07:29 PM, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > 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

Thanks for the bug references, Alan.

The solution proposed in 55991 (to perform an EOF push when switching from
non-canon to canon) would further break paste to readline().

The caller to readline() may not actually perform any read() but may
simply loop, calling readline();  in this case, when readline()
switches back to non-canonical, it will eventually read the inserted '\0'.
That would be bad.

Regards,
Peter Hurley