Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/06/07/11:20:01
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 06:05:44PM +0000, Chuck wrote:
>I'm running an Oracle program called sqlplus.exe under cygwin and have
>noticed a rather strange behaviour. Und cygwin, if you let it prompt you
>for the password, it echoes the password back. Under the Windows command
>line it does not. This started when I added the line "set CYGWIN=tty" to
>the batch file that launches my cygwin ksh. I wanted that line do that ^Z
>and ^D worked as they do in a unix ksh. Is there a setting that will give
>me both unix control character behaviour and hide the password while it's
>being entered? I've looked for documentation on the CYGWIN variable and
>have only found a couple of lines at http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-
>env.html.
>
>Thanks in advance.
Since sq1plus is not a cygwin program, it doesn't fully understand cygwin
tty's. So, it doesn't realize that it should be turning off echoing since
cygwin tty's are just represented as pipes to non-cygwin aware programs.
I doubt that there is anything you can do to rectify this behavior other
than to make some kind of wrapper for sq1plus which redirects stdin/stdout
to the console and then calls sq1plus.
Maybe something like:
sq1plus < /dev/console >/dev/console 2>&1
might work, but no guarantees.
cgf
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