On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 05:59:15PM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote: > > No, they can be buffered on the terminal. Try typing at 'sleep 5; cat > > </dev/tty' if you don't believe me. > > hm - right, but login plays a lot with the terminal (it has to disable > echo for instance), so maybe it flushes the buffer before to read the > password - must read the source!
Yeah, that's probably why it doesn't behave as expected. ssh's readpassphrase() function behaves in much the same way. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
