Re: [PATCH] Avoid crippled getpass function on Solaris

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

The stdio behavior on Solaris is weird. If I run this sample program:

  #include <stdio.h>
  int main(void)
  {
    FILE *fh = fopen("/dev/tty", "w+");
    char buf[32] = {0};
    fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), fh);
    fprintf(fh, "got %s\n", buf);
    return 0;
  }

on Linux, I get:

  $ ./a.out
  foo        <-- me typing
  got foo    <-- program output

On Solaris, I get:

  $ ./a.out
  foo        <-- me typing
  foo        <-- ???
  got foo    <-- program output

That's not a bug, you need to flush or seek when you want to switch
between read to write.

Andreas.

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