bug#29918: 26.0.90; serial-term error in process filter

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>,  29918@debbugs.gnu.org,
>>   gazally@runbox.com,  larsi@gnus.org
>> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2019 09:49:02 -0400
>> 
>> > I don't understand why limit, if we assume that no program will write
>> > UTF-8 encoded sequences byte-byte.
>> 
>> I don't think we can assume that, in general.
>
> What would be a situation where it is false?

Isn't sending bytes one-by-one a pretty common thing for (primitive)
programs to do?  I'd assume so, especially for serial communication
programs.

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