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

Sasha Khapyorsky sashak at voltaire.com
Mon Jun 2 12:12:27 PDT 2008


On 12:01 Mon 02 Jun     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 
> Just seems safer to me to implement without using this.

Without using this we need to write getpass() function. Prefer to do it
in the case if we will see some problem with glibc's one.

> It's only a
> "shortcut" anyway for turning echo off and on.

Also it tries to use /dev/tty instead of stdin/stdout, locks the file,
etc.

Sasha



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