Re: [Bug-gnulib] getpass echoes on many systems

[Larry Jones]

Bruno Haible writes:
> 
> But the code assumes that stdin and stderr have not been closed (since
> in some case these streams are used).

They may have been closed and reopened.  In general, I don't think
there's anything that says a user isn't allowed to do:

        fclose (stderr);
        fclose (stdin);
        stdin = stderr = fopen ("/dev/null", "r+");

> This should be documented. Then
> there is no need for an auxiliary variable - because assuming that
> stdin has not been closed, fopen(something) cannot return stdin.

If you go that route, then make very sure that the code relies only on
exactly what you document.

-Larry Jones

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