Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 09:09:52 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> Cc: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, "Daniel O'Connor" <darius@dons.net.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NetWare client in -current Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9909130908090.10872-100000@feral.com> In-Reply-To: <19990913092335.A35751@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk>
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> 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
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