Re: getpass documentation

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Thanks, below is an updated patch.

OK. Are you going to commit that?

> -Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
> +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{getpass-gnu}:
>  @itemize
>  @item
> -This function is missing on some platforms:
> -mingw, BeOS.
> +The gnulib implementation return a password of arbitrary length read
> +from /dev/tty (or stdin), other implementations may truncate the
> +password to PASS_MAX or 8 characters.
> address@hidden itemize

What's the reason that you mention "from /dev/tty (or stdin)"? Don't other
implementations read from /dev/tty or stdin?

Bruno