X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:07:05 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ask for help on running interactive cmd in Mintty! From: Tian You To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id q5KF7Z5p013484 I run the perl script in mintty. If I run it in a Windows cmd.exe terminal, that works normally. The ssh.exe is compiled in the Cygwin by myself. Any other ideas about it? What make me confusing is that why it behavious differently if I get input from STDIN or not. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Tian You wrote: >> Hi All >> >> I'm running a perl program like this: >> >> ## script start ## >> print "Please input:"; >> my $input = ; >> chomp $input; >> >> system("ssh to a remote machine to run an command"); >> print "done\n"; >> ## script done ## >> >> But after I input something and press enter, I can not see the output >> of the ssh command. >> Only after I press any key, the output flushes out to the screen. >> Is the output buffered? But why it flushed after I press any one key? >> > > Are you starting in mintty or rxvt?  What happens if you don't use > either of those?  I suspect that your ssh isn't a Cygwin build and you > are seeing the effect of PTY as pipes emulation. > > -- > Earnie > -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd > > -- > 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 > -- 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