On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 17:38:14 +1000, David Leonard wrote: > Another non-busybox place is the termios interface, which is mostly > implemented in the kernel. [...] There seems no existing standard > way in this interface for setting an obfuscating character like > asterisk.
It's usualluy a bad idea to put more things in the kernel. termios gives you enough rope to implement any behavior you need in userland. TIL that NetBSD has getpassfd(3) that supports GETPASS_ECHO_STAR: https://man.netbsd.org/getpassfd.3 https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/lib/libc/gen/getpass.c -uwe _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] https://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
