Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
There are alot of problems in the tvision library too. I made the
patch that 'allows' it to compile with gcc3.2.1. I did not correct
the problems in the since I am trying to focus on libh.
Max Okumoto
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