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Steps to reproduce

The container-file at https://github.com/srcshelton/docker-gentoo-build/blob/master/gentoo-base/Dockerfile.env is 19k in size. Attempting to container build it results in:

$ /usr/local/bin/container build --file Dockerfile.env --tag localhost/gentoo-env:latest . 
Error: unavailable (14): Transport became inactive

… but doing nothing other than removing commented lines (bringing the total size below 16k) proceeds to attempt to build the container image.

Current behavior

Container-files of over 16k in length appear to fail to transfer to the builder buildkit instance.

Expected behavior

Container-files of arbitrary length should be processed correctly (or, at least, a meaningful error message produced if any length-limit is exceeded).

Environment

- OS: macOS 26.0.1
- Xcode: Version 26.0.1 (17A400)
- Container: container CLI version 0.5.0 (build: release, commit: 48230f3)

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