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authorjruoho <jruoho@NetBSD.org>2010-05-06 11:09:39 +0000
committerjruoho <jruoho@NetBSD.org>2010-05-06 11:09:39 +0000
commit5686044fbd2377c65ac4e1b240bc6cfaaa5b34cf (patch)
tree11f89b7523fb221fad87e641677fc6267bc528a7 /lib/libc
parenta9d1f49a49e7a235c34b780d2b2124014f925020 (diff)
.Nm -> .Fn.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/getpass.316
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3 b/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3
index 0fcea098438..64220f0a95c 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/getpass.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: getpass.3,v 1.12 2010/04/30 05:50:46 jruoho Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: getpass.3,v 1.13 2010/05/06 11:09:39 jruoho Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)getpass.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
.\"
-.Dd April 30, 2010
+.Dd May 6, 2010
.Dt GETPASS 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ The
function displays a prompt to, and reads in a password from,
.Pa /dev/tty .
If this file is not accessible,
-.Nm
+.Fn getpass
displays the prompt on the standard error output and reads from the standard
input.
.Pp
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ characters in length.
Any additional
characters and the terminating newline character are discarded.
.Pp
-.Nm
+.Fn getpass
turns off character echoing while reading the password.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
-.Nm
+.Fn getpass
returns a pointer to the null terminated password.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /dev/tty -compact
@@ -79,16 +79,16 @@ The function was removed in the
standard.
.Sh HISTORY
A
-.Nm
+.Fn getpass
function appeared in
.At v7 .
.Sh BUGS
The
-.Nm
+.Fn getpass
function leaves its result in an internal static object and returns
a pointer to that object.
Subsequent calls to
-.Nm
+.Fn getpass
will modify the same object.
.Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
The calling process should zero the password as soon as possible to