Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!aurora!ames!hao!gatech!uflorida!codas!killer!ninja!sys1!sneaky!gordon
From: gordon@sneaky.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: getpass(3) bug on 3.0 development (
Message-ID: <-63138298@sneaky>
Date: 18 Feb 88 05:05:00 GMT
References: <10074@stb.UUCP>
Lines: 11
Nf-ID: #R:stb.UUCP:10074:sneaky:-63138298:000:432
Nf-From: sneaky.UUCP!gordon    Feb 17 23:05:00 1988


The System III/System V branch of UNIX evolution has a version of getpass()
that opens /dev/tty, and returns NULL if it cannot be opened.  The 
V7/2BSD/4BSD branch uses standard input if /dev/tty cannot be opened.  

Since the earlier version of Xenix was V7-based, and the current one
is System-III-based, it looks like the code is correct and the documentation
is out of date.

				Gordon Burditt
				...!ihnp4!sys1!sneaky!gordon