[BRLTTY] problems installing brltty-5.4

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Tue Dec 6 06:06:53 EST 2016


[quoted lines by John Covici on 2016/12/06 at 02:41 -0500]

>The problem was that the file got truncated after 8192 bytes, you
>logged into my system and saw that.  

Yes, but I've forgotten the details.

>But when I did the cat command
>using files  insteadof a pipe, then it did function.  The pipe size is
>much larger, so I don't know why the file is being truncated like
>that.

I don't like "fixing" an understood problem. I think I'd like to see an strace 
of the failure.

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