From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
"tech@openbsd.org" <tech@openbsd.org>,
"Klemens Nanni" <kn@openbsd.org>,
"Benoit Lecocq" <benoit@openbsd.org>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is getpass(3) really obsolete?
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 21:31:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2111012124460.1978253@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd78c241-c51e-03c6-1e6b-641536245fbd@gmail.com>
On Sat, 30 Oct 2021, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Libc-alpha wrote:
> > See the discussion of deprecation starting with
> > <https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2021-May/126356.html> (C2X
> > has also deprecated those functions). The comments in that thread
> > supported marking the functions deprecated, but it needs someone to send a
> > patch and I don't know what breakage might result in applications using
> > those functions.
>
> Thanks. The latest draft for C2x that I know of is N2596. Is there any newer
> draft that I can consult for these things? I see many proposals, but it's
The latest public draft is N2731, but there are still various accepted
proposals not included in there, including N2566 (wording version 2) which
I believe was accepted in October 2020 (I think issue 68 in the (private)
C standard GitLab, for integrating that paper, has been incorrectly closed
without integrating it).
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-01 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-10-29 11:15 Alejandro Colomar
2021-10-29 11:28 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-29 11:40 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-10-29 12:11 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-29 16:31 ` Joseph Myers
2021-10-30 12:24 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-11-01 21:31 ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2021-10-29 12:10 ` rsbecker
2021-10-29 13:55 ` Eugene Syromyatnikov
2021-10-29 13:55 ` Theo de Raadt
2021-10-29 14:18 ` rsbecker
2021-10-29 14:21 ` Theo de Raadt
2021-10-29 14:33 ` rsbecker
2021-10-29 14:44 ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2021-10-29 15:00 ` rsbecker
2021-10-29 14:53 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-09-27 19:19 ` readpassphrase(3) in glibc, and agetpass() (Was: Is getpass(3) really obsolete?) Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-27 19:33 ` Alex Colomar
2022-09-27 20:30 ` Sam James
2022-09-27 21:00 ` Zack Weinberg
2022-09-27 22:41 ` Alejandro Colomar
2022-09-27 20:52 ` readpassphrase(3) in glibc, and agetpass() Junio C Hamano
2021-10-29 15:27 ` [PATCH] getpass.3: SYNOPSIS: Mark getpass() as [[deprecated]] Alejandro Colomar
2021-10-29 20:27 ` Is getpass(3) really obsolete? Jeff King
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