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changeset 10087:3e7833ffcecb
Document limits of other implementations.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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date | Mon, 19 May 2008 13:15:59 +0200 |
parents | dfb0faac01ec |
children | 03b96a68253f |
files | ChangeLog doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,8 +1,12 @@ +2008-05-19 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi: Document limits of other + implementations. + 2008-05-19 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> - * doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi: Document gnulib - implementation. + * doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi: Document gnulib implementation. 2008-05-18 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
--- a/doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi @@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{getpass-gnu}: @itemize @item -The gnulib implementation return a password of arbitrary length read -from /dev/tty (or stdin), other implementations may truncate the -password to PASS_MAX or 8 characters. +The returned password is truncated to PASS_MAX characters on some platforms: +MacOS X 10.5 (128), FreeBSD 6.2 (128), NetBSD 3.0 (128), OpenBSD 4.0 (128), AIX 5.1 (32), HP-UX 11 (8), IRIX 6.5 (32), OSF/1 5.1 (80), Solaris 10 (8, even less than PATH_MAX), Cygwin (128). +The gnulib implementation returns the password untruncated. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: