Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Another way of looking at this is that >>> there is a memory leak in the gnulib 'getpass' module. >> >> It's hard to argue this way: getpass() is not specified by a standard. > > It is a memory leak regardless of whether it is standardized.
It is defined in XSH5 page 353: http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c606.htm It is marked optional though. I'm not sure it is a good idea to recommend use of getpass, possibly gnulib could offer a better interface. It could have a parameter to ask for confirmation of the password internally. However, I will use getpass for now since I don't want to introduce a lot of changes in the particular code I'm working on. /Simon
