[Add a few CCs, since I mentioned them.]
On 10/29/21 13:15, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
Hi,
As the manual pages says, SUSv2 marked it as LEGACY, and POSIX doesn't
have it at all. The manual page goes further and says "This function is
obsolete. Do not use it." in its first lines.
But, glibc doesn't seem to have deprecated this function at all. And it
seems to be the most portable way to get a password, even if it's not in
POSIX.
BSDs have readpassphrase(3), but glibc doesn't, so unless you recommend
OpenBSD also marks getpass(3) as obsolete and recommends readpassphrase(3):
<https://man.openbsd.org/getpass>
using readpassphrase(3) from libbsd, or plan to add it to glibc, I think
getpass(3) should be the recommended function in Linux, and therefore we
should remove the hard words against it.
As a real example, git(1) uses getpass(3).
<https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/compat/terminal.c>
What are your thoughts?
Thanks,
Alex
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