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-rw-r--r--libbb/read_key.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/libbb/read_key.c b/libbb/read_key.c
index 3771045d2..6f6c39e45 100644
--- a/libbb/read_key.c
+++ b/libbb/read_key.c
@@ -69,11 +69,14 @@ int64_t FAST_FUNC read_key(int fd, char *buffer)
errno = 0;
n = (unsigned char) *buffer++;
if (n == 0) {
- /* If no data, block waiting for input. If we read more
- * than the minimal ESC sequence size, the "n=0" below
- * would instead have to figure out how much to keep,
- * resulting in larger code. */
- n = safe_read(fd, buffer, 3);
+ /* If no data, block waiting for input.
+ * It is tempting to read more than one byte here,
+ * but it breaks pasting. Example: at shell prompt,
+ * user presses "c","a","t" and then pastes "\nline\n".
+ * When we were reading 3 bytes here, we were eating
+ * "li" too, and cat was getting wrong input.
+ */
+ n = safe_read(fd, buffer, 1);
if (n <= 0)
return -1;
}