On October 29, 2021 7:29 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > 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 is obsolete.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? getpass() is obsolete in POSIX.2. However, some platforms still are on POSIX.1, so replacing it instead of providing a configure detection/switch for it might cause issues. -Randall
