From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS53758 23.128.96.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.7 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB0E51F953 for ; Mon, 1 Nov 2021 21:31:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231910AbhKAVeQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2021 17:34:16 -0400 Received: from esa3.mentor.iphmx.com ([68.232.137.180]:27365 "EHLO esa3.mentor.iphmx.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232627AbhKAVeM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2021 17:34:12 -0400 IronPort-SDR: /8HN5u0V/6s5RqgvNlgwtSwNOn50NbeGLkVH+Rq+EbZ33vL1yQ/iphhltyQl77gvnoBlQKI9OL vxsRcHjgqSE3mNbIiOCptQhOaKcSlrrJv9QBA6sbLJi70+uqPriAs9bshSXuO8+60vTiJspyN2 ZboU4G+h+oFMML7swagd9ceFZ2UDikCZNtsiWfDkt+eCkcgI4kYsfIZJU9oLYUOJnOcnLwmFXR UnTT+fW6VHbIk/bfjzWrLcGhXJlVKzkyLx9AutzC8uxJm0b+Iak4K+dr1oUljFi6D7oR0WQO79 YbcVJ9hgWyxFkog6Ft6JBaZ7 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.87,200,1631606400"; d="scan'208";a="67765910" Received: from orw-gwy-02-in.mentorg.com ([192.94.38.167]) by esa3.mentor.iphmx.com with ESMTP; 01 Nov 2021 13:31:37 -0800 IronPort-SDR: AqggZ70hZ7ne6ghGXbhp8ZYTOSK3fcBwp71AIzUtLXST/I4o/lxxBaspP2JVGLJCbSnLShqsG4 i7vqSELD3O3Siip1zqojAEFrcshQZ3hO4Nk9yILzdQLMHV29p4mJ5jd8h1SgGDFUKPDAT7RXEW Djo88BgcscRkD8R2eZ/XAglm4ns8/6xWBIezOMilZdnjta7PnHzLPHvJmD7GjmOS+urg4/npG/ kAPzyZ7S9TG5pyyb42q+x3ViBh+Bgjp5r5DPluZ446/fK4PjmrwzJcURuPt/pOJF1gHKc25QPN 4J4= Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 21:31:31 +0000 From: Joseph Myers X-X-Sender: jsm28@digraph.polyomino.org.uk To: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" CC: linux-man , Libc-alpha , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=C6var_Arnfj=F6r=F0_Bjarmason?= , "tech@openbsd.org" , Klemens Nanni , Benoit Lecocq , Subject: Re: Is getpass(3) really obsolete? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <73ac38a2-c287-4cc1-4e9c-0f9766ac4c0c@gmail.com> <211029.86r1c43uwj.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> <865e5899-b991-918d-8bc6-ced65a67a566@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (DEB 394 2020-01-19) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Originating-IP: [137.202.0.90] X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-05.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.5) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 30 Oct 2021, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) via Libc-alpha wrote: > > See the discussion of deprecation starting with > > (C2X > > has also deprecated those functions). The comments in that thread > > supported marking the functions deprecated, but it needs someone to send a > > patch and I don't know what breakage might result in applications using > > those functions. > > Thanks. The latest draft for C2x that I know of is N2596. Is there any newer > draft that I can consult for these things? I see many proposals, but it's The latest public draft is N2731, but there are still various accepted proposals not included in there, including N2566 (wording version 2) which I believe was accepted in October 2020 (I think issue 68 in the (private) C standard GitLab, for integrating that paper, has been incorrectly closed without integrating it). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com