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Truncated process output with pty's on Mac OS X.
author Andrew Choi <akochoi@shaw.ca>
date Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:51:57 +0000
parents b819086c2c6a
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Tue Jul 22 17:31:46 2003 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Tue Jul 22 17:51:57 2003 +0000
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 This file describes various problems that have been encountered
 in compiling, installing and running GNU Emacs.
 
+* Process output truncated on Mac OS X (Carbon) when using pty's.
+
+There appears to be a problem with the implementation of pty's on the
+Mac OS X that causes process output to be truncated.  To avoid this,
+leave process-connection-type set to its default value of nil.
+
 * Emacs crashes on Mac OS X (Carbon) after system software upgrade.
 
 This problem seems to be now solved by Steven Tamm's patch to