Re: CVS commit: src/crypto/external/bsd/openpgpsdk/dist/src/app

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:13:55AM +1100, Luke Mewburn wrote:
 >   | Should have RTFM'd.
 > 
 > Some other platforms (older Solaris ?) have a 8 character limit
 > with getpass() and you should use getpassphrase() instead.
 > NetBSD does not suffer from this.

Information in back of mind corrected; thanks.

although I note that opengroup.org says the length constant is
PASS_MAX, and it looks like we do define that, even though it's not
listed in getpass(3). Is there any reason we document _PASSWORD_LEN
instead? CVS history suggests "not particularly"...

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David A. Holland
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