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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Ben Walton <bwalton@artsci.utoronto.ca>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid crippled getpass function on Solaris
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 17:34:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120806213404.GA14320@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344287843-sup-6200@pinkfloyd.chass.utoronto.ca>

On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 05:31:00PM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:

> > I'm happy to spend a few cycles on it.  I don't have access to any
> > real Solaris boxes these days, but I imagine I can get OpenSolaris
> > running under VirtualBox without too much trouble...
> 
> I'm also happy to do this work and have ready access to Solaris 8-11.

I'm currently in pkgutil hell trying to remember how to get a working
gcc on Solaris. Bleh. What kind of OS doesn't ship with a compiler by
default? :)

> Would it be reasonable to support using getpassphrase() if
> !HAVE_DEV_TTY in addition to making the HAVE_DEV_TTY code function on
> Solaris too?  That would provide a harm reduction for Solaris users
> that (for some reason) disabled the nicer interface...but maybe it's
> too much?

If you think there is a reason that somebody on Solaris might not want
to use HAVE_DEV_TTY, then I guess it makes sense. But I can't really
think of one, so I'd be just as happy to leave it until somebody does.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-06 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-05 23:17 [PATCH] Avoid crippled getpass function on Solaris Ben Walton
2012-08-06  1:56 ` Tay Ray Chuan
2012-08-06  2:41   ` Ben Walton
2012-08-06  1:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-06  2:35   ` Ben Walton
2012-08-06 19:39     ` Jeff King
2012-08-06 19:57       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-06 21:31       ` Ben Walton
2012-08-06 21:34         ` Jeff King [this message]
2012-08-06 22:09           ` Ben Walton
2012-08-06 22:31             ` Jeff King
2012-08-06 22:39               ` Ben Walton
2012-08-06 22:42                 ` Jeff King
2012-08-06 23:31                   ` Ben Walton
2012-08-07  0:01                     ` Jeff King
2012-08-06 23:05               ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-07  0:23                 ` Jeff King
2012-08-07  0:35                   ` Jeff King
2012-08-07  2:18                     ` Tay Ray Chuan
2012-08-07  3:01                     ` Ben Walton
2012-08-07  3:07                     ` [PATCH] Enable HAVE_DEV_TTY for Solaris Ben Walton
2012-08-07  3:43                       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-08-07  4:03                         ` Jeff King
2012-08-07  4:10                           ` Jeff King
2012-08-07 15:31                             ` Ben Walton
2012-08-08 14:13                             ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-08-08 21:05                               ` Jeff King

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