help with execve

Can't touch this... basilisk at banana.ucsb.edu
Wed Oct 24 04:18:43 AEST 1990


>I can't imagine what you're trying to do.
	A class project.  Do you really think that if I were trying to
do something dishonorable I would ask the whole world for help?

>Anyway, the password is read from the terminal with getpass(3), and if
>you had RTFMed a little better you would know that it reads the password
>from /dev/tty, not stdin.

	Thanks for the help.  I could have done without the snide
remark, though.  If giving advice is such a chore, why do it?




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