Re: [PATCH] Avoid crippled getpass function on Solaris

> > I've also briefly dabbled with getting Solaris to simply use the
> > HAVE_DEV_TTY code path but the terminal echo stuff hasn't worked
> > nicely for me just yet.  (It reads the password with nothing
> > echoed but then displays the string after reading the newline.)
> > This might still be a better approach in the future, but for now,
> > having long password reading capability will still be a benefit to
> > users on this platform.
> 
> Replacing
> 
>     if (!echo) {
>         putc('\n', fh);
>         fflush(fh);
>     }
> 
> with
> 
>     if (!echo)
>         write(term_fd, "\n", 1);
> 
> fixed that. Using fd's instead of FILE* was mentioned at [1]. Perhaps
> that is the direction to go in.