From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 13 9:12:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8530114F38 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:12:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from feral.com (mjacob@feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA10992; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:09:52 -0700 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:09:52 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Dominic Mitchell Cc: Parag Patel , "Matthew N. Dodd" , "Daniel O'Connor" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetWare client in -current In-Reply-To: <19990913092335.A35751@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:15:12AM -0700, Parag Patel wrote: > > Growing up programming on a KL-10, I still think the correct place for > > line-editing is in the driver. Hell - it's already doing basic > > erase/kill line editing as it is. Then you don't have to hack every > > command-line app to get line-editing. Yeah, and this is why VMS 4.X (early) had a terrific security bug- if you type '#' (or was it '&') as the first character after you logged in, your accounting records for that session were wiped. No, a driver is *not* the place to put this kind of fooling around. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message