> 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 majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
