Hide input string from stdin

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 22:38:46 UTC, Michael Chen wrote:
> I tried to write a small program that receive string as 
> password.
>  However, I didn't find available library for hide input 
> string, even in core library.  Any suggestion?

  Hmmm if you don't mind flooding the console (with either a 
pattern or spaces or newlines), you could spawn a separate thread 
to spam the console until it gets the flag to quit... Certainly 
not the best idea, but it would work... (Probably).