Hello Sam,
Am 2007-05-02 19:06:09, schrieb Sam Morris:
> On Wed, 02 May 2007 19:19:53 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > I have goten an older source which has some problems to compile under
> > Sid. After reading a bunch of "manpages-dev" I have seen that "getpass"
> > is obsolete and I should not use it.
>
> Although the getpass man page (dated from seven years ago!) says this,
> glibc's actual documentation[0] does not mention any problems with the
> getpass function--so I don't see any particular reason to avoid it.
>
> [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/getpass.html#index-
> getpass-3653
Should I submit a bugreport/patch againt "manpages-dev"?
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
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