Re: [PATCH] Prompt for password on Windows platforms

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> (Specifically, it's bad that we open /dev/tty for writing even if we
>> failed it for reading (that will create a new file), and that we don't
>> check if it's a tty at all).

> Maybe we should stat the file and check that it's actually a character
> special device.

On any sane Unix installation, /dev is not user-writable ... and I've
never heard of one without /dev/tty, either.  So the above risk seems
illusory, except on Windows.

            regards, tom lane