On Sat Oct 6 17:56:35 EDT 2012, [email protected] wrote: > Edit (or something in its chain) appears to be broken on buffer > boundary in p9p and in plan9. To test: > > $ perl -e '{print "A"x1023;}' > t.txt # for plan9 acme replace 1023 with 8191 > $ echo [any multibyte utf rune, for example Щ] >> t.txt > $ acme t.txt > [ in acme, middle-swipe "Edit , |cat" without the quotes ] > > this happens with any binary on the other side of the pipe (originally > discovered with gofmt). it happens on multiples of that size too, > 1024, 2048, etc for p9p. it does not occur if just the pipe is used, > only when going through Edit.
in case you don't read the p9p list, there's a pach for this. the p9p patch was applied; the plan 9 one has not yet been applied. plan9 /n/sources/patch/acme-xfid p9p https://bitbucket.org/rsc/plan9port/changeset/27213bfba2ec/ - erik
