Thanks for the responses! That's great news about readline. After I received the first reply, from Thomas, I got stuck into implementing it and also expanded my "File and console I/O" page:
http://puppylinux.com/genie/inputoutput.htm Important: my Genie tutorials are definitely a work-in-progress. They are also intended to be informal and chatty, not like the official docs. They also have some personal biases. I'll add the readline technique later. Regards, Barry Kauler On 12/3/08, Clément DAVID <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just use it at vala-benchmarks and security take time :) > > Of course for real application prefer readline. > > 2008/12/3 Frederik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> David Keijser wrote: >>> >>> I second this. readline is not only better but gets() is not even safe >>> (see man 3 gets) >> >> I have created a patch with the beginning of GNU Readline bindings: >> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=563057 >> _______________________________________________ >> Vala-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list >> > _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
