Bug#364153: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#364153: cryptsetup: timeout option leaves terminal in bad state

[Andres Salomon]

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 14:02 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> On 22/04/2006 Andres Salomon wrote:
> > Attached is a patch that fixes this issue.  In the process, it also gets
> > rid of getpass() (which is considered obsolete, and should not be used;
> > see the manpage).  Instead, we use select()+read(), along w/ manually
> > disabling ECHO in the terminal.
> 
> hello Andres,
> 
> i've tested your patch, and it seems to work perfectly well.
> but unfortunately this is only the case for the luks* features of
> cryptsetup. Plain 'cryptsetup create' still leaves the terminal in a bad
> state after terminating the passphrase prompt.
> 
> could you try to investigate that and update the patch to fix it as
> well?
> 

I will do so; I've just been short on time lately.  Please ping me again
in a few weeks if I've not sent you a patch.  My TODO queue is long. :(


[...]
> 
> ps: you seem to be interested in the cryptsetup package, and you are a
>     debian developer. maybe you'dd like to join the pkg-cryptsetup
>     maintainer team and become a co-maintainer :-)

Heh, if only I had more time..