We recently added a call to getpass(3) function. Needless to say this
doesn't exist on Windows. More seriously the man-page for getpass on
Linux has strong exhortations not to use the function.
NAME
getpass - get a password
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
char *getpass( const char * prompt );
DESCRIPTION
This function is obsolete. Do not use it.
The getpass() function opens /dev/tty (the controlling terminal
of the
process), outputs the string prompt, turns off echoing, reads
one line
(the "password"), restores the terminal state and closes
/dev/tty
again.
[...]
CONFORMING TO
Present in SUSv2, but marked LEGACY. Removed in POSIX.1-2001.
Should we remove it? Replace it?
Rich.
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