On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > Read from stderr? I admit I've heard stderr is bi-directional but I can't say > I've ever seen it used to read input.
Well, `wget' can be used as a filter (and I did do so a couple of times in some scripts in the past; I would be surprised if others did not), so you better keep its standard input and output intact. You could try to fopen(ttyname(fileno(stderr)), "r") or suchlike instead, but "stderr" should just work. You may want to have a look at what `ssh' does for example. > I both dislike GNU formatting and am not familiar with it, so obviously > someone that understands it will have to fix this. Well, chances are nobody could be bothered to fix your patch if you submit it incorrectly formatted; I would certainly not if I were the maintainer. If you do not like the GNU coding standard (which can be read by issuing `info standards' on a reasonably complete GNU system, BTW), then write your code however you like and run `indent' over it before submission. I prefer the Linux style myself, but I understand if I want to participate, I have to play the rules set by the copyright holders or otherwise I shall be ignored. This is free software though, so if you disagree, the license allows you to derive your own project using your rules as you like as long as you obey the license. > Which strikes me as odd, really, but I would guess not so many people use wget > for sites that need a password (I never did until recently), at least not on > non-private computers. I.e. if they do, they're ok with the existing security > risks. You can store your password in the input file provided to `wget' so it will be concealed from all the other users of the system apart from the administrator. And if you do not trust your administrator, you are lost anyway (they could log all your keystrokes if they wanted to), so why bother? > I very much doubt this patch will be accepted, there are huge problems with it > yet (like, it should persist the password, work with ftp, etc). It was meant > more as a starting point, and for commentary... and you've made some good > comments, thanks! You are welcome. Maciej
