Package: dialog Version: 1.3-20201126-1 Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer, The --max-input option seems to ignore values higher than 2048, which is the default limit according to the man page. This means that we cannot pass lines to the editbox widget that are longer than 2047 characters since they get truncated. One such use case is base64-encoded data. Steps to reproduce: 1. Create 2050-character input string: # echo -n $(openssl rand -hex 1025) > /tmp/input && cat /tmp/input | wc -c 2050 2. Run dialog with an input limit higher than 2048 (e.g., 2060): # touch /tmp/foo && dialog --max-input 2060 --output-separator '' --editbox /tmp/foo 18 80 2>/tmp/output 3. Copy the input string from /tmp/input into your clipboard and paste it into the editbox. 4. Press the "OK" button. 5. Inspect the length of the output string. # cat /tmp/output | wc -c 2047 Expected behavior: length of output string == 2050 (== length of input string) Actual behavior: length of output string == 2047 (== <default --max-input> - 1) When setting --max-input to values lower than 2048 though, it works as expected. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.13 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-91-generic (SMP w/4 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: unable to detect Versions of packages dialog depends on: ii debianutils 4.8.1.1 ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u2 ii libncursesw6 6.2+20201114-2 ii libtinfo6 6.2+20201114-2 dialog recommends no packages. dialog suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
