Bug 1330363 - MAXLINE of ksh is not long enough
Summary: MAXLINE of ksh is not long enough
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: ksh
Version: 6.7
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Siteshwar Vashisht
QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-26 03:24 UTC by JQK
Modified: 2017-06-13 08:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2017-06-13 08:10:11 UTC
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Description JQK 2016-04-26 03:24:49 UTC
Description of problem:

MAXLINE of ksh is not long enough

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ksh-20120801-28.el6.x86_64.rpm

[ENV]
# ksh
# echo $LANG
en_US.utf8

How reproducible:

Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:

In RHEL6.7 ksh, in the command line, when the LANG is utf-8, it seems that I can only input 1019 char(nearly to 1024).

In the following example, I have input "1234567890" by 101 times, but
continuely I can only input one "123456789" after that.

=========[example]==================================
# ksh
#
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789
===========================================

Actual results:

In RHEL6.7 ksh, in the command line, it seems that I can only input 1019
char(nearly to 1024).

Expected results:

Make it more such as 2048 or 4096 when using utf-8


Additional info:

After digging the src code, the *MAXLINE* is defined as following:

==================
src/cmd/ksh93/include/edit.h
:
63 #define MAXLINE 1024            /* longest edit line permitted */
:
==================

After make the MAXLINE more such as 2048, then re-compile a new rpm and install it on rhel6, then I can input more char in ksh cmd-line with utf-8.

Comment 2 Jun Hu 2016-08-04 02:42:54 UTC
what's the progress, had the new release that resolve the issue published?


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