Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 09:03:48 -0800 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), wollman@lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getpass.c Message-ID: <199512291703.JAA15305@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Dec 1995 10:59:04 %2B0100." <199512290959.KAA10015@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getpass.c
As Paul Traina wrote:
* Where have you been on Dec 10, when i've been asking in -current
(Subject: getpass() and SIGINT) whether somebody objects?
Belize... I just got back.
* No, this hasn't changed the behaviour of getpass() in accepting any
of the signalling characters; they had to be quoted with ^V (or
whatever your lnext character is set to) anyway, as well as for
example ^\. The only change is that the ^C interpretation is now
immediate, while you first had to press enter in order to see the
effect of you intr previously.
Wait, are you trying to tell me that ^V^C would not normally generate a
signal? I find that difficult to believe, although I haven't tested it.
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