On Tue 24 Jan 2023 at 17:18:17 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-01-22 15:35:08 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't work. > > The xterm's pty's input buffer is full, and it simply ignores all keyboard > > input from that point forward. > > They are actually not ignored, but delayed by the terminal emulator. > This is an issue because Ctrl-C (the intr character) is normally > taken into account immediately (with a SIGINT generation), even if > earlier characters have not been read yet by the command. > > And this is apparently the same for the other special characters > as defined by stty.
How did you determine that they're actually received by the terminal emulator after the buffer is full? IOW where are they being stored? Cheers, David.
