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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-24 00:31:01 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-12-24 00:31:01 +0000
commitb1044a070b87b20a73f593b1087fae3a062d5920 (patch)
treedaa375c4c5a8cf9fabd0f0657b2141fbb899ef71 /lib/libc/gen/readpassphrase.3
parent89891a551cfa28139f6165de0c822d75e1035761 (diff)
Various repairs, mostly to get rid of short lines.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/gen/readpassphrase.3')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/gen/readpassphrase.311
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/gen/readpassphrase.3 b/lib/libc/gen/readpassphrase.3
index 4d7018759a0..8880dd8bf88 100644
--- a/lib/libc/gen/readpassphrase.3
+++ b/lib/libc/gen/readpassphrase.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: readpassphrase.3,v 1.1 2000/11/21 00:48:37 millert Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: readpassphrase.3,v 1.2 2000/12/24 00:30:50 aaron Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ and the
flag is not set,
.Fn readpassphrase
displays the prompt on the standard error output and reads from the standard
-input. In this case it is generally not possible to turn off echo.
+input.
+In this case it is generally not possible to turn off echo.
.Pp
Up to
.Fa bufsiz
@@ -74,14 +75,14 @@ space.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
On success,
.Fn readpassphrase
-returns a pointer to the NUL-terminated passphrase. If the
+returns a pointer to the null-terminated passphrase.
+If the
.Dv RPP_REQUIRE_TTY
flag is set and
.Pa /dev/tty
is inaccessible,
.Fn readpassphrase
-returns the
-.Dv NULL pointer.
+returns a null pointer.
.Sh EXAMPLES
The following code fragment will read a passphrase from
.Pa /dev/tty