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From: "Richard Stanton" <stanton AT Haas DOT Berkeley DOT EDU>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
Cc: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: RE: ncftp - works, but doesn't display any prompts
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:13:01 -0800
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Thanks for checking into that, Charles. One more little thing - ncftp seems
to read and write its configuration files from/to the directory c:/.ncftp on
my disk, not c:/cygnus/.ncftp, even though I have "c:\cygnus" mounted as
"/". Should this be happening?

Richard Stanton


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Wilson [mailto:cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 4:53 PM
> To: Richard Stanton
> Cc: Cygwin
> Subject: Re: ncftp - works, but doesn't display any prompts
>
>
> This is a bug in ncftp or cygwin.  If ncftp determines that it is not
> running from a TTY, it doesn't print any prompts.  Here's the code that
> it uses to determine that (ncftp/main.c):
>
>         gIsTTY = ((isatty(2) != 0) && (getppid() > 1)) ? 1 : 0;
>         gIsTTYr = ((isatty(0) != 0) && (getppid() > 1)) ? 1 : 0;
>
> Here's the result of those operations in a bash window:
> isatty(2) = 1
> isatty(0) = 1
> getppid() = 1764
> gIsTTY = 1
> gIsTTYr = 1
>
> And from a cmd prompt:
> isatty(2) = 1
> isatty(0) = 1
> getppid() = 1
> gIsTTY = 0
> gIsTTYr = 0
>
> I'm not sure what the right fix is.  Options:
>   1) Is this really a problem with the getppid implementation of cygwin
> (?)
>   2) patch ncftp to ignore the value of getppid() -- just use isatty(x)
>      --> #ifdef __CYGWIN__, or for all platforms?  Why does ncftp test
>      getppid() anyway?
>
> --Chuck
>
> Richard Stanton wrote:
> >
> > I just installed the latest version of ncftp using the cygwin
> setup program.
> > I love the program, and it seems to work fine, but I don't get
> any prompts
> > to make it clear I'm supposed to type. Here's a sample session, my input
> > preceded by "*":
> >
> > [c:\]ncftp
> > NcFTP 3.0.2 (October 19, 2000) by Mike Gleason (ncftp AT ncftp DOT com).
> > *dir
> > dir: must be connected to do that.
> > *open ttt
> > Resolving ttt...
> >
> > Unknown host "ttt".
> >
> > How do I get it to display ftp-type command prompts?
> >
> > Richard Stanton
> >
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