[Gnash-dev] gnashing teeth

[Howard Chu]

Along the lines of this complaint
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2009-02/msg00054.html
gnash was printing its silly "parsing file" message to *stdout* and not to 
stderr, which was extremely annoying. (In 0.8.4, haven't checked current 
source yet.)

And while playing with this
http://linuxcentre.net/hulu-possibly-accessible-again-soon/#comments

I had to go through a number of contortions to make it all work. Took at least 
4 runs of configure and two compiles before I figured out I needed to 
--enable-extensions=FILEIO and --enable-debugger, buried among all the other 
build errors/warnings I was getting. (E.g., it said "you can ignore these 
errors" for missing libgif, libjpeg, etc., which was false, those were fatal 
errors for the build.)

I'd like to request that a neutered FILEIO be enabled by default - 
specifically, allow printf/puts by default. Also, I'd like fscommand("quit") 
to always be allowed by default. I don't see how this is a security 
liability... (OK, maybe not direct exposure of stdio, but if you want gnash 
and ActionScript to actually be useful in a generic Linux environment, you've 
got to make it capable of behaving well in a standard pipeline. That means 
being able to read from stdin, and write to stdout/stderr in the default 
build. And it has to be able to exit when its work is done.)
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