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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-06-21 05:38:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2007-06-21 05:38:48 +0000 |
| commit | 8bd58774dc993f38652cd90beb335e1a5ca68204 (patch) | |
| tree | 78d162e122e1b4d7f6ba3bc96727c262728a509c /man3/getpass.3 | |
| parent | 826bc5db806f59ec4c0c3c6cd50d70d6d2307a01 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-8bd58774dc993f38652cd90beb335e1a5ca68204.tar.gz | |
Formatted signal names
Diffstat (limited to 'man3/getpass.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | man3/getpass.3 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man3/getpass.3 b/man3/getpass.3 index 67183941a8..94398c8c48 100644 --- a/man3/getpass.3 +++ b/man3/getpass.3 @@ -76,8 +76,12 @@ cannot be opened, the password is read from .IR stdin . The static buffer has length 128 so that only the first 127 bytes of the password are returned. -While reading the password, signal generation (SIGINT, SIGQUIT, -SIGSTOP, SIGTSTOP) is disabled and the corresponding characters +While reading the password, signal generation +.RB (SIGINT , +.BR SIGQUIT , +.BR SIGSTOP , +.BR SIGTSTOP ) +is disabled and the corresponding characters (usually control-C, control-\e, control-Z and control-Y) are transmitted as part of the password. Since libc 5.4.19 also line editing is disabled, so that also |