21 Feb
2022
21 Feb
'22
7:01 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 5:42 PM Chet Ramey <chet.ramey(a)case.edu> wrote:
On 2/20/22 4:19 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
wrote:
At this point, it feels like the die has been cast. Readline, or something
like it, is "good enough" and those working with something plan9-like
don't
need the functionality at all. Arguably, on Unix-style systems it would be
cleaner to do in the kernel, but aside from aesthetics, what's the
incentive to change?
- Dan C.
Did anyone think about doing this in the past? If
yes, what made you
decide against doing it? (Or a streams implementation, for that matter.)
There have been several implementations (I never did one). I suspect that
the people who were in a position to integrate that functionality into
distributed kernels were not supportive, or the code didn't get to them
at the right time.