X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 10:15:42 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows7 broke DRIVELETTER:/path on cmdline of non-cygwin exe (really tty issue?) Message-ID: <20120406081542.GA13898@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20120403055503.GA6387@raf.org> <4F7AD7F3.4030208@cs.umass.edu> <20120404003419.GA16890@raf.org> <4F7B9F99.4030508@cs.umass.edu> <20120404034204.GA18871@raf.org> <20120404080037.GX8014@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120406002751.GA11640@raf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120406002751.GA11640@raf.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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