From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20829 invoked by alias); 10 Apr 2012 00:53:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 20822 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Apr 2012 00:53:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_VIA_APNIC,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from pooka.fabcat.org (HELO pooka.fabcat.org) (114.31.201.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:53:04 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pooka.fabcat.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33674104FC for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:53:02 +1000 (EST) Received: from pooka.fabcat.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pooka.fabcat.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id eIBi0UfWuWIX for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:53:01 +1000 (EST) Received: by pooka.fabcat.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 25219410103; Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:53:00 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:53:00 -0000 From: raf To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows7 broke DRIVELETTER:/path on cmdline of non-cygwin exe (really tty issue?) Message-ID: <20120410005259.GA25577@raf.org> 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> <20120406081542.GA13898@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120406081542.GA13898@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00249.txt.bz2 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