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Date:      Thu, 28 Dec 1995 13:06:19 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg@freefall.freebsd.org>
Cc:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-lib@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen getpass.c
Message-ID:  <9512281806.AA23043@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199512272323.PAA25025@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <199512272323.PAA25025@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Wed, 27 Dec 1995 15:23:01 -0800 (PST), Joerg Wunsch <joerg@freefall.freebsd.org> said:

> joerg       95/12/27 15:23:01
>   Modified:    lib/libc/gen  getpass.c
>   Log:
>   Don't block SIGINT in getpass(3); this doesn't make sense.
  
It shouldn't block SIGTSTP, either.  (The calling program should if
it's important.)  This is very obnoxious when I'm on a text console
attempting to FTP somewhere using S/Key, since it is impossible to
suspend ftp while it's prompting for a password.  Under OSF/1, it
works.

-GAWollman

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