Merge branch 'stable'

[gnulib.git] / doc / glibc-functions / getpass.texi

diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi
index 0f2992d..111344e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi
+++ b/doc/glibc-functions/getpass.texi
@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{getpass} or @code{getpa
 @itemize
 @item
 This function is missing on some platforms:
-mingw, BeOS.
+mingw, MSVC 9, BeOS.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{getpass-gnu}:
 @itemize
 @item
-The gnulib implementation return a password of arbitrary length read
-from /dev/tty (or stdin), other implementations may truncate the
-password to PASS_MAX or 8 characters.
+The returned password is truncated to PASS_MAX characters on some platforms:
+MacOS X 10.5 (128), FreeBSD 6.2 (128), NetBSD 3.0 (128), OpenBSD 4.0 (128), AIX 5.1 (32), HP-UX 11 (8), IRIX 6.5 (32), OSF/1 5.1 (80), Solaris 11 2010-11 (8, even less than PASS_MAX), Cygwin (128).
+The gnulib implementation returns the password untruncated.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: