On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 10:15:02AM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 17:59:47 -0800
> Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> [making libdialog safer }
> > libdialog is rife with overflowable buffers..I'm not sure it would be
> > safe even with this input method.
>
> Okay, I have another idea that might be a bit more productive, since the
> code in libdialog seems to be nothing but a huge hack. How about
> adopting tvision to replace dialog(3)? Libh uses tvision, and I've
> thought about writing a small API compat glue (libtdialog.{so,a}) that
> would allow legacy libdialog code to be linked with tvision without
> modification. The only (big) drawback I see in tvision is that it's in
> C++, otherwise is lightyears ahead of what dialog(3) currently offers.That could be quite a worthwhile project. Kris
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