Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 4 13:42, raf wrote: > > I think it has more to do with the change in terminal handling. > > The password prompting is no longer working (even in mintty). > > The lack of debug output was just buffering. > > The problem is that native Windows CLI applications usually don't > work interactively with Cygwin's pseudo ttys as stdio descriptors.
The application in question is python.exe using its getpass module. > > The users can run the programme from cmd.exe so I'll set up > > some .bat scripts for them instead of bash functions if I > > can't easily get it working from within cygwin. > > You can use the still existing Cygwin.bat script from Cygwin's root > directory to start a Cygwin bash in a Windows console window. The > password prompting will still work there. I thought that's what I was doing when clicking on the cygwin shortcut on the desktop. If that had worked I wouldn't have come asking for help here. :-) So perhaps the cause isn't the change in tty handling. I need to investigate further when I can sit in front of this user's computer while they're not using it and do more debugging. It'll probably turn out to be something silly. Thanks. > Corinna > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat cheers, raf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
