2 @subsection @code{getpass}
5 Gnulib module: getpass or getpass-gnu
7 Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{getpass} or @code{getpass-gnu}:
10 This function is missing on some platforms:
14 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{getpass-gnu}:
17 The returned password is truncated to PASS_MAX characters on some platforms:
18 MacOS X 10.5 (128), FreeBSD 6.2 (128), NetBSD 3.0 (128), OpenBSD 4.0 (128), AIX 5.1 (32), HP-UX 11 (8), IRIX 6.5 (32), OSF/1 5.1 (80), Solaris 11 2010-11 (8, even less than PASS_MAX), Cygwin (128).
19 The gnulib implementation returns the password untruncated.
22 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: