[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 6/10/16 9:17 AM, John E. Malmberg wrote:
> On 6/9/2016 10:37 PM, lawrencedo99 at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> The other one is the terminal driver. My first impression of Unix
>> was  what a crap terminal driver it had, that echoes everything as
>  > soon as it’s typed. Seems like no other system has seen fit to
>  > emulate the thoughtful VMS feature of not echoing anything until
>  > it is actually being recognized as input to a program.
>
> Which can let text not intended to be echoed like passwords leak to the
> terminal output.
>

Unix (and thus Linux) has built in method that prevents things like
passwords from echoing.

Once again people pointing out non-existant weaknesses in Unix.  I
wish people would take the time to actually learn about it before
trying to criticize it.

bill