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GETPASS(3C-SVR3)    RISC/os Reference Manual     GETPASS(3C-SVR3)



NAME
     getpass - read a password

SYNOPSIS
     #include <bsd/sys/types.h>

     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 8 charac-
     ters.  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 not otherwise using standard
     I/O, more than might be expected.

CAVEAT
     The return value points to static data whose content is
     overwritten by each call.


























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