getpass obsolete?

Tue May 27 15:38:00 GMT 2003

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 05:05:06PM +0800, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> I've successfully compiled an application from redhat linux 8.0 that uses the getpass function from /usr/include/unistd.h.  There is
> no problem whatsoever but I was just bothered by the
> documentation on linux when I did a "man getpass".  The first line of the description says:
> 
> "This function is obsolete.  Do not use it."

The man pages are not the documentation of the GNU C library.  Read the
glibc info manual (or the manual that is available online in various
formats).  "info libc" might work on your system, if you have info reader
and the GNU C library manual installed. 

> do I have to implement my own in the future?

There is an example in the proper manual.

Thanks,
Marcus

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