DaWei

There is no "portable" way to do this in C. There has to be a hardware (and, usually, OS) specific driver that matches the input device. Many compilers provide things that are OS or platform specific, but that specificity means they aren't portable. The C standard does not address the issue (it can't, reasonably).

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2roll4life7

http://java.sun.com/developer/techni...ity/pwordmask/

Although that may not be the most reliable solution, it for the most part works. I don't see why the same thing can't be done in C. I just said portable, I didn't say anything about reliable. I know there are several multi-platform libraries for threading.

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<Jim_McNeat> Is there like a way to put a compiler in "Just trust me on that one" mode?

DaWei

It has nothing whatsoever to do with password masking. C doesn't provide a method for getting a single character (other than the ENTER key), with or without echo. I'm not saying someone couldn't decide at some point to alter the standards and requirements, I'm telling you what there is. It's dead simple to write code to do it. It's not portable.

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2roll4life7

DaWei, I think we both misunderstood eachother. What I thought you were saying is that there's no portable way of password masking in C. I realize now the point you are trying to make about the getch() method, and you're right.

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<Jim_McNeat> Is there like a way to put a compiler in "Just trust me on that one" mode?

DaWei

I think we probably did misconstrue each other's points. Portability, after all, has many flavors.

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