From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 29 14:30:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA18573 for current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:30:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA18568 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 14:30:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA08048; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 23:30:02 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA28176; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 23:30:01 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id XAA10329; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 23:25:26 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512292225.XAA10329@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getpass.c To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 23:25:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199512291703.JAA15305@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Dec 29, 95 09:03:48 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. Oh, i hope you enjoyed it. :) > 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. Of course, it doesn't. That's what lnext is for. (Remember, SysV used to use \ instead of lnext, this always gave me a hard time to erase an accidentally typed backslash.) Too bad that Posix didn't standardize lnext. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)