Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!esosun!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!matt From: matt@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Matt Costello) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Input Line Editing Message-ID: <2362@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Date: 14 Jul 88 03:22:17 GMT References: <16456@brl-adm.ARPA> <9666@eddie.MIT.EDU> <10443@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <9671@eddie.MIT.EDU> <23839@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo Lines: 16 As regards the Input Line Editor, and where does it fit ... Isn't this what STREAMS are for? Since a stream module has access to the ioctls it should know when it is or is not wanted. It would replace the standard line discipline available in cooked mode. The ILE would then be available to all programs doing line mode input from the user's terminal. Which brings up the interesting question of where a streams module would store 'instance' data since it is in the kernel address space. The only thing I can see is that the streams module could grab a free disk buffer or two to save the history. -- Matt Costello+1 619 485 2926 {ucsd,att,pyramid,nosc.mil}!ncr-sd!matt