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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
  • To: freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Proposed patch to datacopy to allow passwords to be read from stdin
  • Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 22:49:07 -0400

On Sun, 9 Sep 2012 21:45:16 +0100
Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com> wrote:

> > A local file is subject to the same inspection as the process's
> > environment. It is thus no better or worse than my solution.
>
> At least Linux and HP-UX does not require such things to get access to
> command line. Environment perhaps required it but ps returns the
> expanded command line

I see. Yes, that makes sense. The only command line ps(1) could show
would be the one passed to the kernel after the shell finished
processing any metacharacters.

> I vote for getopt too!

:-)

> However I think that all tools support reading from standard input too
> so the patch would only align datacopy to other tools.

OK. I withdraw my objection. Let's apply it. I continue to hope
someone will add Kerberos to datacopy, too.

--jkl




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