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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi b/gnulib/doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..111344e --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +@node getpass +@subsection @code{getpass} +@findex getpass + +Gnulib module: getpass or getpass-gnu + +Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{getpass} or @code{getpass-gnu}: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS. +@end itemize + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{getpass-gnu}: +@itemize +@item +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 11 2010-11 (8, even less than PASS_MAX), Cygwin (128). +The gnulib implementation returns the password untruncated. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@end itemize |