Module Name: src
Committed By: christos
Date: Sat Apr 14 02:01:13 UTC 2012
Modified Files:
src/lib/libc/gen: getpass.3
Log Message:
a clarification, an a formatting nit.
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.20 -r1.21 src/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3
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Index: src/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3
diff -u src/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3:1.20 src/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3:1.21
--- src/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3:1.20 Fri Apr 13 21:33:43 2012
+++ src/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3 Fri Apr 13 22:01:12 2012
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: getpass.3,v 1.20 2012/04/14 01:33:43 christos Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: getpass.3,v 1.21 2012/04/14 02:01:12 christos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ The behavior of
is controlled by the
.Fa flags
argument:
-.Bl -tag -width GETPASS_BUF_LIMIT
+.Bl -tag -width GETPASS_FORCE_UPPER
.It Dv GETPASS_NEED_TTY
Fail if we are unable to set the tty modes like we want.
.It Dv GETPASS_FAIL_EOF
@@ -133,13 +133,15 @@ Lowcase each entered character.
.It Dv GETPASS_FORCE_UPPER
Upcase each entered character.
.El
+.Pp
Finally if the
.Fa timeout
argument is non zero,
.Fn getpassfd
will wait for
.Fa timeout
-seconds for input after each character before returning an error.
+seconds for input after each character before returning an error, instead of
+waiting forever.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn getpass
