From: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:19:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: add a getpass() compatibility function
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=y5uk2Oi+yx+f-cjUeBrzKeFzzmg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8B762D96-54CF-4E42-BF90-7790E900AA30@gieschke.de>

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Rafael Gieschke <rafael@gieschke.de> wrote:
>
> Am 19.05.2011 um 20:07 schrieb Erik Faye-Lund:
>> diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
>> index 62eccd3..e37d557 100644
>> --- a/compat/mingw.h
>> +++ b/compat/mingw.h
>> @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ typedef int socklen_t;
>> #define EAFNOSUPPORT WSAEAFNOSUPPORT
>> #define ECONNABORTED WSAECONNABORTED
>>
>> +#define PASS_MAX 512
>> +
>
> It might be worth to have this in git-compat-util.h, so it can also be used by compat/getpass.c. I'm not sure about the name, however; it's a remote password and MAX_PASS is about local passwords AFAIK. Maybe PASS_MAX_REMOTE or something similiar. Like that, compat/getpass.c could also be used in case MAX_PASS has some insanely low value on a platform.
>
>

PASS_MAX should be defined in limits.h (which is included by
git-compat-util.h) on POSIX platforms:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/limits.h.html

If it turns out it's not on some platforms, perhaps a define-guarded
version would make sense in git-compat-util.h instead.