Excerpts from Jeff King's message of Mon Aug 06 17:34:04 -0400 2012: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 05:31:00PM -0400, Ben Walton wrote: > > > > I'm happy to spend a few cycles on it. I don't have access to any > > > real Solaris boxes these days, but I imagine I can get OpenSolaris > > > running under VirtualBox without too much trouble... > > > > I'm also happy to do this work and have ready access to Solaris 8-11. > > I'm currently in pkgutil hell trying to remember how to get a working > gcc on Solaris. Bleh. What kind of OS doesn't ship with a compiler by > default? :) One that's losing mindshare and isn't gaining traction? *g* Feel free to message me offline if you need a hand with that. > > Would it be reasonable to support using getpassphrase() if > > !HAVE_DEV_TTY in addition to making the HAVE_DEV_TTY code function > > on Solaris too? That would provide a harm reduction for Solaris > > users that (for some reason) disabled the nicer interface...but > > maybe it's too much? > > If you think there is a reason that somebody on Solaris might not > want to use HAVE_DEV_TTY, then I guess it makes sense. But I can't > really think of one, so I'd be just as happy to leave it until > somebody does. No, I can't think of a _good_ reason to do that either. Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer - CHASS University of Toronto C:416.407.5610 | W:416.978.4302 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html