[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v2] saquery: --smkey command line option

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 21:55 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> On 11:44 Mon 02 Jun     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Man page for getpass indicates:
> > > > "This function is obsolete. Do not use it."
> > > 
> > > Right, but glibc info page doesn't indicate this.
> > 
> > I looked at the man pages on both RHEL4 and RHEL5 machines.
> 
> I saw this, just don't understand what this should mean for us.
> Glibc's info page:
> 
>   info getpass
> 
> doesn't indicate this. Maybe there could be portability problems, but it
> should not be worst with 'su'.

Just seems safer to me to implement without using this. It's only a
"shortcut" anyway for turning echo off and on.

-- Hal

> Sasha