Re: Program launched under rxvt asks for user input in original prompt

["Mikael" <mindcooler at gmail dot com>]

"Brian Dessent" wrote:
> Mikael wrote:
>
>> Hello, a few days ago I got some help on this list to get rxvt (and also
>> with emacs' shell mode) up and running and I love it! But today when 
>> trying
>> out MySQL 5.0.3 beta that was just released, I noticed an annoying thing:
>> I tried to start mysql command line shell by issuing (under rxvt):
>> $ mysql -u root -p
>> Now I am supposed to see the text "Enter password: " but nothing 
>> happened.
>> Then I noticed that the text had appeared in the original prompt from 
>> where
>> rxvt was launched. The command line utility mysqladmin, which I use to 
>> shut
>> down the database, also behaves in this way. And trying to type the 
>> password
>> in the original prompt (which is echoed in clear-text) does not work by 
>> the
>> way.
>> Have I encountered a bug here?
>
> It's not a bug.  When you use rxvt/xterm Cygwin has to emulate a pty
> (pseudoterminal) which is a unix concept that does not exist natively in
> Windows.  Native windows apps such as the mysql binaries that you're
> using often get confused by this, becase they only know about a Windows
> console, which is probably why you saw the text on the original cmd.exe
> prompt.
>
> There is really no straightforward way to solve this.  You could compile
> the mysql client binaries under Cygwin (I don't think the server works
> yet...), or you could supply the password in ~/.my.cnf, or stick to
> running them only in cmd.exe.
>
> Brian
>

Thanks Brian, I guess I'll just launch these programs from an ordinary 
command line shell then.
As for building the client-only side of MySQL for Cygwin, that still doesn't 
work ootb because term.c in the mysql source insists on including both 
termcap.h and (n?)curses.h, and, as you know, those are mutually exclusive 
(at least on cygwin). When I have the mysql client successfully running 
under cygwin I will celebrate.

/ M 




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