Re: getpass: get system declaration

[Simon Josefsson]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> On Solaris at least, getpass() is not declared in <unistd.h> or <stdlib.h> if
> __EXTENSIONS__ is not defined. This fixes the autoconf test and the use of
> <unistd.h> in lib/getpass.h.
>
> By the way, on all systems (including glibc), getpass() is declared by
> including <unistd.h>. I would propose to move its declaration in gnulib
> from "getpass.h" to <unistd.h>, and to drop getpass.h. (getpass.h was
> created in 2004, when we didn't have a <unistd.h> replacement.)
> Objections?

Sounds good to me.  I suspect getpass.h predates our system header
replacement approach.

/Simon