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Bug#940960: ITP: linenoise -- Minimal replacement for readline



On 2023/5/14 03:24, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> I came across linenoise because of a request to support it in nftables.
> The request came from someone who wanted to install nftables in a
> resource-constrained environment where the existing libreadline support
> was too heavyweight.  In the case of osquery, would it possible to go
> the other way?  Do you think that upstream would be open to adding
> support for libreadline if we offered patches?
> 
> J.

Feasible on the resource level I think, it links to many libraries anyway. But
for using readline… they actually switched away from it in 2016:
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/2613

Considering their rather radical approach of vendoring everything, I don't have
too much hope for that.

-- 
Sdrager,
Blair Noctis

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