Re: Is getpass(3) really obsolete?
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- Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
- Date
- Oct 29, 2021, 16:31 UTC
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On Fri, 29 Oct 2021, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Libc-alpha wrote:
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> The broader context is that I was trying to make the deprecation notices more > consistent in the Linux manpages, by using the [[deprecated]] attribute where > appropriate. While doing that, I found a few cases where the > deprecation/obsoletion is not so clear to me, such as this one > ([as]ctime[_r](3) is another one, since it is deprecated by POSIX, but not by > the C standard, but I'll start a different thread with that; and isascii(3) is
See the discussion of deprecation starting with <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-May/126356.html> (C2X has also deprecated those functions). The comments in that thread supported marking the functions deprecated, but it needs someone to send a patch and I don't know what breakage might result in applications using those functions.
-- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com