Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:32:47 +0300 From: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com> To: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't change tty speed and buffer size on 8.0 Message-ID: <817huzj1ts.fsf@zhuzha.ua1> In-Reply-To: <4AD3BB3E.5000809@FreeBSD.org> (Doug Barton's message of "Mon\, 12 Oct 2009 16\:26\:54 -0700") References: <861vla2ogy.fsf@kopusha.onet> <4AD3BB3E.5000809@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:26:54 -0700 Doug Barton wrote: > Mikolaj Golub wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On 8.0-RC1 if you run this command: >> >> cat > /dev/null >> >> and try to input a long line, the maximum length you can input is 1920 >> characters. >> >> I have investigated a bit how I can increase a tty buffer as this is a problem >> for me (I have logs with very long lines and I used to copy&past a particular >> line into input of some script to structure it). > > I have no useful input on the buffer size issue, but if you wanted to > post a bit of your script we may be able to help you find a different > solution that doesn't involve cat. :) Thanks, but cat was taken as a simple example just to illustrate the problem. The real scripts are usually on perl with 'while(<>)' loop or 'perl -ne' one liners. And sure I could find ways to workaround the problem and actually this is what I did until ed@ provided the solution. -- Mikolaj Golub
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