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12.116.18 getpass

Documentation:

• https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/getpass.html,
• man getpass.

Gnulib module: getpass or getpass-gnu

Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module getpass or getpass-gnu:

• This function is missing on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 14, Android 9.0.

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module getpass-gnu:

• The returned password is truncated to PASS_MAX characters on some platforms: uClibc (256), musl (128), macOS 11.1 (128), FreeBSD 13.0 (128), NetBSD 3.0 (128), OpenBSD 4.0 (128), AIX 5.1 (32), HP-UX 11 (8), IRIX 6.5 (32), Solaris 11 2010-11 (8, even less than PASS_MAX), Cygwin (128). The gnulib implementation returns the password untruncated.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: