On Wed, 02 May 2007 19:19:53 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > I have goten an older source which has some problems to compile under > Sid. After reading a bunch of "manpages-dev" I have seen that "getpass" > is obsolete and I should not use it.
Although the getpass man page (dated from seven years ago!) says this, glibc's actual documentation[0] does not mention any problems with the getpass function--so I don't see any particular reason to avoid it. [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/getpass.html#index- getpass-3653 -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
