Re: [PATCH] Avoid crippled getpass function on Solaris

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> ....  From my reading of
> getpassphrase, it does seem to be a drop-in replacement.
>
> So I'm OK conceptually with the patch if we can't do any better. But
> getpass still sucks. It doesn't handle echoing, and it may or may not
> fall back to reading from stdin if the tty isn't available (which is
> disastrous for remote-curl, whose stdin is speaking the remote-helper
> protocol to git). So I'd really prefer to make HAVE_DEV_TTY work with
> Solaris if we can.

Tay Ray Chuan mentioned in the thread near-by that HAVE_DEV_TTY
codepath worked for him with "FILE *" to fd conversion, I think.
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