On 12/21/25 4:23 PM, Bruce Jerrick wrote:
On 12/19/25 07:12, Chet Ramey wrote: ...Doesn't this seem like incredible overkill for something that is rarely requested and would be rarely used?Two points: 1. It may be rarely requested just because users don't bother to ask.
Maybe. There's no way to know; this is an unprovable statement.
2. Even if it seems like overkill, the patch is already done.
Just because a patch is `done' doesn't mean that it's needed or useful. It may be the case that a patch is not maintainable, or doesn't integrate well with the rest of the code, doesn't use the existing coding style, or employs a jarring, incompatible way of doing things (string options prefixed with a colon?). Writing the code is often the part of that code's life cycle that takes the least amount of time.
I don't think it would "rarely" be used.
Sure, you'd use it.
It would be a good thing to have when reading a password.
Opinions on this are mixed, at best.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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