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

Hal Rosenstock hrosenstock at xsigo.com
Mon Jun 2 12:25:28 PDT 2008


On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 22:12 +0300, Sasha Khapyorsky wrote:
> 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.

Yes.

> Prefer to do it in the case if we will see some problem with glibc's one.

But why implement using a known obsoleted function ?

-- Hal

> > 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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