From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from esa2.mentor.iphmx.com (esa2.mentor.iphmx.com [68.232.141.98]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A92083858403 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2021 21:31:38 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org A92083858403 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=codesourcery.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=mentor.com IronPort-SDR: NQCsFaPW8Fxj24b5/+ZcjW11aUh3A3WL+MdJw5ShvBJJSv3AYZLUw7FzqT1w5B/QfURPLdbJI7 IJGJkC0ckwCkIeF/QEKtXmI+2uKiqYskxRHyt89r5mP+i8HLvHpfitRtUDqR7Aavr+oiYHPCX4 OsFBlFBgwDM32kI/VMfr7fRa/itbpazuyCyouqCAtWI3AlBqSiNlPazclBYlsXI/96PvuKwk3L jMeWjRkjrEAVS1U5k1WOUAiI9RyNN2ZssfQpAPHNbova9WUleqHFf7lPr6FmXu1FkgoM/gKQyy EzFmsDajZ7e9e1ykL5mipHet X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.87,200,1631606400"; d="scan'208";a="67915252" Received: from orw-gwy-02-in.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.167]) by esa2.mentor.iphmx.com with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2021 13:31:36 -0800 IronPort-SDR: AqggZ70hZ7ne6ghGXbhp8ZYTOSK3fcBwp71AIzUtLXST/I4o/lxxBaspP2JVGLJCbSnLShqsG4 i7vqSELD3O3Siip1zqojAEFrcshQZ3hO4Nk9yILzdQLMHV29p4mJ5jd8h1SgGDFUKPDAT7RXEW Djo88BgcscRkD8R2eZ/XAglm4ns8/6xWBIezOMilZdnjta7PnHzLPHvJmD7GjmOS+urg4/npG/ kAPzyZ7S9TG5pyyb42q+x3ViBh+Bgjp5r5DPluZ446/fK4PjmrwzJcURuPt/pOJF1gHKc25QPN 4J4= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 21:31:31 +0000 From: Joseph Myers X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" CC: linux-man , Libc-alpha , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0_Bjarmason?= , "tech@openbsd.org" , Klemens Nanni , Benoit Lecocq , Subject: Re: Is getpass(3) really obsolete? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <73ac38a2-c287-4cc1-4e9c-0f9766ac4c0c@gmail.com> <211029.86r1c43uwj.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> <865e5899-b991-918d-8bc6-ced65a67a566@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (DEB 394 2020-01-19) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Originating-IP: [137.202.0.90] X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-05.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.5) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3117.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, SPF_HELO_PASS, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2021 21:31:40 -0000 On Sat, 30 Oct 2021, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Libc-alpha wrote: > > See the discussion of deprecation starting with > > (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