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

[Sasha Khapyorsky]

On 12:25 Mon 02 Jun     , Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> 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 ?

I cannot find *why* it was marked obsolete, it is not marked obsolete in
glibc, finally why out own implementation will be "less obsolete" :).
What wrong with doing this on demand if needed? Unless we know a reason.

Sasha