Is getpass(3) really obsolete?

[Joseph Myers]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2021, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Libc-alpha wrote:

> > See the discussion of deprecation starting with
> > <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-May/126356.html> (C2X
> > has also deprecated those functions).  The comments in that thread
> > supported marking the functions deprecated, but it needs someone to send a
> > patch and I don't know what breakage might result in applications using
> > those functions.
> 
> Thanks.  The latest draft for C2x that I know of is N2596.  Is there any newer
> draft that I can consult for these things?  I see many proposals, but it's

The latest public draft is N2731, but there are still various accepted 
proposals not included in there, including N2566 (wording version 2) which 
I believe was accepted in October 2020 (I think issue 68 in the (private) 
C standard GitLab, for integrating that paper, has been incorrectly closed 
without integrating it).

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Joseph S. Myers
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