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Re: [PATCH] Avoid crippled getpass function on Solaris

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 6, 2012, 19:57 UTC
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<20120806193958.GA10039@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> ....  From my reading of
> getpassphrase, it does seem to be a drop-in replacement.
>
> So I'm OK conceptually with the patch if we can't do any better. But
> getpass still sucks. It doesn't handle echoing, and it may or may not
> fall back to reading from stdin if the tty isn't available (which is
> disastrous for remote-curl, whose stdin is speaking the remote-helper
> protocol to git). So I'd really prefer to make HAVE_DEV_TTY work with
> Solaris if we can.

Tay Ray Chuan mentioned in the thread near-by that HAVE_DEV_TTY codepath worked for him with "FILE *" to fd conversion, I think.

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  1. Avoid crippled getpass function on SolarisBen Walton, Aug 5, 2012
  2. Tay Ray ChuanAug 6, 2012
  3. Ben WaltonAug 6, 2012
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  5. Ben WaltonAug 6, 2012
  6. Jeff KingAug 6, 2012
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  8. Ben WaltonAug 6, 2012
  9. Jeff KingAug 6, 2012
  10. Ben WaltonAug 6, 2012
  11. Jeff KingAug 6, 2012
  12. Ben WaltonAug 6, 2012
  13. Jeff KingAug 6, 2012
  14. Ben WaltonAug 6, 2012
  15. Jeff KingAug 7, 2012
  16. Andreas SchwabAug 6, 2012
  17. Jeff KingAug 7, 2012
  18. Jeff KingAug 7, 2012
  19. Tay Ray ChuanAug 7, 2012
  20. Ben WaltonAug 7, 2012
  21. Enable HAVE_DEV_TTY for SolarisBen Walton, Aug 7, 2012
  22. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2012
  23. Jeff KingAug 7, 2012
  24. Jeff KingAug 7, 2012
  25. Ben WaltonAug 7, 2012
  26. Erik Faye-LundAug 8, 2012
  27. Jeff KingAug 8, 2012

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