Reading Passwords From /dev/tty

[Werner Koch]

On Tue,  1 Aug 2017 07:26, evan at eklitzke.org said:

> password!), but I am curious why projects like GPG and sudo prefer using
> /dev/tty. Does anyone know what the argument is for using a pseudo-TTY?

dkg already explained the primary reason.  Another reason why we don't
use stdin is to avoid extra buffer in the stdio layer.  Well, that can
also be disabled but then using read(2) directly is easier.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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