Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 23:25:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getpass.c Message-ID: <199512292225.XAA10329@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512291703.JAA15305@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at Dec 29, 95 09:03:48 am
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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. ;-)
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