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Re: [Bug-gnulib] getpass echoes on many systems

From: Bruno Haible
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnulib] getpass echoes on many systems
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 11:46:24 +0200
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Larry Jones wrote:
> So neither test is reliable -- we need an auxiliary variable instead.

But the code assumes that stdin and stderr have not been closed (since
in some case these streams are used). This should be documented. Then
there is no need for an auxiliary variable - because assuming that
stdin has not been closed, fopen(something) cannot return stdin.

Bruno
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