On 18 Oct 2015, at 15:42, Richard Lowe wrote: > This is a limit in the size of the tty line-editing buffer. I run into it > pretty often (and confusingly) too. I'd looked into what it would take to > make it bigger, but all I remember is being lost and confused in the > wonderful world of STREAMs.
Historically this goes back to serial consoles and the limited buffering available in many hardware implementations. This problem is *not* unique to SmartOS. In that context upping buffer sizes can bite hard - getting a console diagnostic that is truncated due to buffer overflow is no fun at all. Workaround: use scp or equivalent for transferring such files. This is of course a swine if you haven't got network connectivity or are trying to correct a firewall misconfiguration... -- Paul Sture ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
