Re: getpass documentation

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> > What's the reason that you mention "from /dev/tty (or stdin)"? Don't other
>> > implementations read from /dev/tty or stdin?
>> 
>> Without that part, I found to description to be somewhat ambiguous: it
>> could be interpreted as a function that returns a random password, not
>> one read from the user.  Do you think "from the user" is better?
>
> I think writing it in a way that does not force to repeat what the function
> does gets it shorter. Like this. I also went through a couple of systems to
> see what the limit actually is.

Many thanks!

/Simon