Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 6 10:27, raf wrote: > > 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. > > :-) > > Since a while the shortcut on the desktop starts mintty, not a Windows > console. > > Corinna
Thanks Corinna. Using cygwin.bat works perfectly for this. 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
