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r76017 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-11-01 10:42:17 -0800 (Sun, 01 Nov 2009) | 18 lines
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r76000 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-10-31 14:26:08 -0700 (Sat, 31 Oct 2009) | 7 lines
Fixes issue7208 - getpass would still allow the password to be echoed on
Solaris due to not flushing the input buffer.
This change also incorporates some additional getpass implementation
suggestions for security based on an analysis of getpass.c linked to from the
issue.
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r76016 | gregory.p.smith | 2009-11-01 10:33:55 -0800 (Sun, 01 Nov 2009) | 2 lines
news entry for r76000
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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Library
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+- Issue #7246 & Issue #7208: getpass now properly flushes input before
+ reading from stdin so that existing input does not confuse it and
+ lead to incorrect entry or an IOError. It also properly flushes it
+ afterwards to avoid the terminal echoing the input afterwards on
+ OSes such as Solaris.
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- Issue #7233: Fix a number of two-argument Decimal methods to make
sure that they accept an int or long as the second argument. Also
fix buggy handling of large arguments (those with coefficient longer