Brian Macke wrote: > I just verified this on our servers... it appears to only affect the 2.2 > series kernel, and not 2.1 and lower. For 2.1, even with multiple intr's, > it will not echo the password. > > Did Guido have any ideas on what changed in the 2.2 series to warrant > this? Yes. See the cvs log on www.freebsd.org: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/gen/getpass.c You want to look at rev 1.4 It was broken in an attempt to have proper signal handling in getpass(). -Guido
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