Truncated process output with pty's on Mac OS X.

diff --git a/etc/ChangeLog b/etc/ChangeLog
index d4fd37edbc8653f522736cda5dd17329e9c3c993..90836d87d4db216c336556eab9889aaf113b19c9 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/ChangeLog
+++ b/etc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-07-22  Andrew Choi  <akochoi@shaw.ca>
+
+       * PROBLEMS: Truncated process output with pty's on Mac OS X.
+
 2003-07-14  Nick Roberts  <nick@nick.uklinux.net>
 
        * NEWS: Merge in the changes for versions 21.2 and 21.3 as
@@ -68,10 +72,10 @@
 
        * TUTORIAL.pl: Updated.
 
-2003-01-11  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2003-01-11  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * TUTORIAL.sk: Updated to reflect changes in English version.
-       From Miroslav Va\e,B9\e(Bko <zemiak@zoznam.sk>.
+       From Miroslav Va\e$,1!!\e(Bko <zemiak@zoznam.sk>.
 
 2003-01-09  Francesco Potort\e,Al\e(B  <pot@gnu.org>
 
@@ -141,7 +145,7 @@
 
        * termcap.src: New version from ftp://invisible-island.net.
 
-2002-03-24  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2002-03-24  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * TUTORIAL.translators: New file, list of tutorial translators.
 
@@ -149,15 +153,15 @@
 
        * gnus.xpm: Remove garbages.
 
-2002-01-27  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2002-01-27  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * letter.xpm: New file, XPM variant of letter.xbm.
 
-2001-12-03  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2001-12-03  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * COPYING: Move back.
 
-2001-11-29  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2001-11-29  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * COPYING: Removed.
 
@@ -212,7 +216,7 @@
        * HELLO: Fix the Italian and Maltese entries.  From Trevor Spiteri
        <tbspit@eng.um.edu.mt>.
 
-2001-08-25  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2001-08-25  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * HELLO: Slovak language name added to be compatible with other
        languages.
@@ -220,7 +224,7 @@
 2001-08-23  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
 
        * TUTORIAL.pl: Updated in accordance with the English version.
-       From Beata Wierzcho\e,B3\e(Bowska <beataw@orient.uw.edu.pl> and
+       From Beata Wierzcho\e$,1 b\e(Bowska <beataw@orient.uw.edu.pl> and
        Janusz S. Bien <jsbien@mail.uw.edu.pl>.
 
 2001-08-14  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
@@ -229,26 +233,26 @@
        per config.sub and config.guess.  Reported by Ryo Furue
        <furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp>.
 
-2001-08-10  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2001-08-10  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * TUTORIAL.sk: Updated in accordance with the English version.
-       From Miroslav Va\e,B9\e(Bko <vasko@debian.cz>.
+       From Miroslav Va\e$,1!!\e(Bko <vasko@debian.cz>.
 
 2001-08-08  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
 
        * TUTORIAL.ko: Updated in accordance with the English version.
        From Koaunghi Un <koaunghi@world.kaist.ac.kr>.
 
-2001-08-06  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2001-08-06  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * TUTORIAL.cs: Update from Milan Zamazal.
 
-2001-08-05  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2001-08-05  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * TUTORIAL.cs, TUTORIAL.sk, cs-refcard.tex, sk-refcard.tex: e-mail
        address of Milan Zamazal changed.
 
-2001-08-04  Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
+2001-08-04  Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk  <Pavel@Janik.cz>
 
        * TUTORIAL, TUTORIAL.cs: Be consistent when naming CONTROL and
        META keys.
@@ -280,7 +284,7 @@
        * sk-dired-ref.tex: New files.
 
        * cs-survival.tex, cs-dired-ref.ps, cs-dired-ref.tex: New files.
-       From Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Jan\e,Bm\e(Bk).
+       From Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Jan\e,Am\e(Bk).
 
 2001-04-10  Vinicius Jose Latorre  <vinicius@cpqd.com.br>
 

diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 75b72fc4d284c1901cc5235026490cf1e6b80fe4..c2547f083c09cfc0aefcba175a14eecc3ed1dbef 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -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