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Re: getpass: get system declaration
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Simon Josefsson |
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Re: getpass: get system declaration |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:19:09 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:
> On Solaris at least, getpass() is not declared in <unistd.h> or <stdlib.h> if
> __EXTENSIONS__ is not defined. This fixes the autoconf test and the use of
> <unistd.h> in lib/getpass.h.
>
> By the way, on all systems (including glibc), getpass() is declared by
> including <unistd.h>. I would propose to move its declaration in gnulib
> from "getpass.h" to <unistd.h>, and to drop getpass.h. (getpass.h was
> created in 2004, when we didn't have a <unistd.h> replacement.)
> Objections?
Sounds good to me. I suspect getpass.h predates our system header
replacement approach.
/Simon