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Re: When to use kernel-builtin line editor?

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Subject: Re: When to use kernel-builtin line editor?
From: qrczak@xxxxxxxxxx (Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk)
Date: 27 Jan 2001 08:13:30 GMT
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Sat, 27 Jan 2001 11:39:42 +0900, Tomohiro KUBOTA <tkubota@xxxxxxxxxxx> pisze:

> When does a user have a chance to use kernel-builtin line editor?

When a program does not use readline or equivalent, e.g. ash (because
it wants to be small), Oracle (because readline is GPL), nslookup
(because nobody bothered to implement it).

BTW. Is there an alternative to readline? Its interface is *horrible*
(inconsistency, lots of global variables, abusing C type casts,
not clear about freeing some memory etc.).

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