On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:16:25 -0500 Peter Hurley <pe...@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
> Although the maximum allowable canonical line is specified to > be 255 bytes (MAX_CANON), the practical limit has actually been > the size of the line discipline read buffer (N_TTY_BUF_SIZE == 4096). Looks good. MAX_CANON in SVID and POSIX is a guarantee that you'll be able to edit that may characters into a line. What happens beyond MAX_CANON is implementation defined and msotly it seems interpreted as "you may get more" - ie MAX_CANON is a minimum line guarantee. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
