New module 'getpass-gnu'.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 594193f..3abaf0e 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-07-31  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * modules/getpass-gnu: New file.
+       * MODULES.html.sh (func_all_modules): Add getpass-gnu.
+
 2003-07-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@twinsun.com>
 
        * modules/xalloc (Depends-on): Add exitfail.

diff --git a/MODULES.html.sh b/MODULES.html.sh
index 4fcc1d7..46c24be 100755 (executable)
--- a/MODULES.html.sh
+++ b/MODULES.html.sh
@@ -1772,6 +1772,7 @@ func_all_modules ()
   func_module closeout
   func_module stdio-safer
   func_module getpass
+  func_module getpass-gnu
   func_end_table
 
   element="Users and groups"

diff --git a/m4/ChangeLog b/m4/ChangeLog
index 77a144b..faab118 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/ChangeLog
+++ b/m4/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2003-07-31  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       * getpass.m4 (gl_FUNC_GETPASS_GNU): New macro.
+
 2003-07-18  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        * getndelim2.m4: New file.

diff --git a/m4/getpass.m4 b/m4/getpass.m4
index 2280921..1a349c7 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/getpass.m4
+++ b/m4/getpass.m4
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
-# getpass.m4 serial 1
-dnl Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# getpass.m4 serial 2
+dnl Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU
 dnl General Public License.  As a special exception to the GNU General
 dnl Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program
 dnl that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under
 dnl the same distribution terms as the rest of that program.
 
+# Provide a getpass() function if the system doesn't have it.
 AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_GETPASS],
 [
   AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(getpass)
@@ -14,6 +15,19 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_GETPASS],
   fi
 ])
 
+# Provide the GNU getpass() implementation. It supports passwords of
+# arbitrary length (not just 8 bytes as on HP-UX).
+AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_GETPASS_GNU],
+[
+  AC_LIBOBJ(getpass)
+  gl_PREREQ_GETPASS
+  dnl We must choose a different name for our function, since on ELF systems
+  dnl an unusable getpass() in libc.so would override our getpass() if it is
+  dnl compiled into a shared library.
+  AC_DEFINE([getpass], [gnu_getpass],
+    [Define to a replacement function name for getpass().])
+])
+
 # Prerequisites of lib/getpass.c.
 AC_DEFUN([gl_PREREQ_GETPASS], [
   :

diff --git a/modules/getpass-gnu b/modules/getpass-gnu
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..01c2686
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/getpass-gnu
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+Description:
+getpass() function: read a password of arbitrary length from /dev/tty.
+
+Files:
+lib/getpass.c
+m4/getpass.m4
+
+Depends-on:
+unlocked-io
+getline
+
+configure.ac:
+gl_FUNC_GETPASS_GNU
+
+Makefile.am:
+
+Include:
+
+Maintainer:
+Jim Meyering, glibc
+