bug#6800: 23.1; EOT / ^D inserted into comint input string

[David Fox]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org> wrote:

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> When an input longer than 255 characters is typed into comint (or
>> shell) an EOT character (ascii 4, ^D) is inserted into the string.
>> This can cause an error depending how the sub process handles these
>> extra characters.  For example, GHC doesn't like it when an EOT
>> appears inside of a string:
>
> I believe this bug is fixed on the Emacs trunk (to become Emacs-24), but
> the fix may introduce other problems.  Apparently nobody knows how to
> fix it right and there is about as much as no documentation at all on
> this part of the behavior of ttys.

IIRC this code is no longer in Emacs. I'll close this bug.

--
Alan Third

I do know that commands longer than 4096 characters are truncated in emacs 24.3.1