getpass(3)
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getpass Subroutine
read a password
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SYNTAX
char *getpass (prompt)
char *prompt;
DESCRIPTION
Getpass reads up to a newline or EOF from the file /dev/tty,
after prompting on the standard error output with the null-
terminated string prompt and disabling echoing. A pointer is
returned to a null-terminated string of at most eight characters.
If /dev/tty cannot be opened, a NULL pointer is returned. An
interrupt will terminate input and send an interrupt signal to
the calling program before returning.
FILES
/dev/tty
WARNING
The above routine uses <stdio.h>, which causes it to increase the
size of programs that otherwise don't use standard I/O.
CAVEAT
The return value points to static data whose content is
overwritten by each call.
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