From: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:23:25 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: os: read only 10,000 bytes at a time from Windows console
X-Git-Tag: go1.6beta2~65
X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.su/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=29eea94abe3841d9569f6b8d110d92a54641c31b;p=gostls13.git

os: read only 10,000 bytes at a time from Windows console

Reading 32,767 is too many on some versions of Windows.
The exact upper bound is unclear.

For #13697, but may not fix the problem on all systems.

Change-Id: I197021ed60cbcd33c91ca6ceed456ec3d5a6c9d6
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18433
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
---

diff --git a/src/os/file_windows.go b/src/os/file_windows.go
index 9b0458552c..aa8c05c4ff 100644
--- a/src/os/file_windows.go
+++ b/src/os/file_windows.go
@@ -265,8 +265,10 @@ func (f *File) readConsole(b []byte) (n int, err error) {
 	if len(f.readbuf) == 0 {
 		numBytes := len(b)
 		// Windows  can't read bytes over max of int16.
-		if numBytes > 32767 {
-			numBytes = 32767
+		// Some versions of Windows can read even less.
+		// See golang.org/issue/13697.
+		if numBytes > 10000 {
+			numBytes = 10000
 		}
 		mbytes := make([]byte, numBytes)
 		var nmb uint32