Re: about history:)

2017-06-30 Thread Ian Lepore
On Fri, 2017-06-30 at 21:19 +0300, Toomas Soome wrote: > hi! > > there is an question about the tty line (canonical) mode — the > internal implementation is using 2k buffer, but the related (public) > constants are claiming buffer size about 255 chars. Why it is so - > any hints about the backgrou

about history:)

2017-06-30 Thread Toomas Soome
hi! there is an question about the tty line (canonical) mode — the internal implementation is using 2k buffer, but the related (public) constants are claiming buffer size about 255 chars. Why it is so - any hints about the background there? #define MAX_CANON 255 /* max bytes