On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:15:15PM +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote: > i'm surprised at any actual name longer than 512 (or even 256), not so much > for plan 9, but > because linux systems still seem to have that tiny TTY limit on the size of > an input line,
err - I seem to recall reading some linux pty/tty source that implied a larger limit in canonical mode - 4k/8k? But that assumes the shells in question _use_ cannonical mode.
