From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpg-interface: reflect stderr to stderr
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 04:39:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160907083947.b7q7ebe62xsr6447@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <655b42d8-baa9-e649-2b3c-5b7bfc914bc5@drmicha.warpmail.net>
On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 10:27:34AM +0200, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Now, I can't reproduce C on Linux[*], so there is more involved. It
> could be that my patch just exposes a problem in our start_command()
> etc.: run-command.c contains a lot of ifdefing, so possibly quite
> different code is run on different platforms.
Maybe, though my blind guess is that it is simply that on Linux we can
open /dev/tty directly, and console-IO on Windows is a bit more
complicated.
You might also check your GPG versions; between gpg1.x and gpg2, the
passphrase input handling has been completely revamped.
> It would be great if someone with a Windows environment could help our
> efforts in resolving issue C, by checking what is actually behind[**]: I
> can't believe that capturing stderr keeps gpg from reading stdin, but
> who knows. Maybe Jeff of pipe_command() fame? I'll put him on cc.
I know nothing about Windows, but I'd be surprised if gpg is reading
from stdin, as opposed to /dev/tty. It's probably more to do with how
gpg finds the "tty" on Windows (presumably it looks at stderr for that).
Anyway, I wrote pipe_command() in such a way as to be prepared for
exactly this kind of thing, so it would be trivial to extend it to an
extra descriptor. The trouble is that run_command() doesn't understand
anything except stdin/stdout/stderr. We can open an extra pipe() before
calling run_command(), and make sure it is not marked CLOEXEC. I don't
know if there are other portability concerns, though.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-07 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-06 8:01 [PATCH] Unbreak interactive GPG prompt upon signing Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-06 12:32 ` Michael J Gruber
2016-09-06 13:13 ` [PATCH] gpg-interface: reflect stderr to stderr Michael J Gruber
2016-09-06 16:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-06 16:42 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-06 16:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-07 8:27 ` Michael J Gruber
2016-09-07 8:39 ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-09-07 9:32 ` Michael J Gruber
2016-09-08 18:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-08 20:03 ` Jeff King
2016-09-08 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-12 13:39 ` Michael J Gruber
2018-10-02 13:02 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-09 7:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-06 16:39 ` [PATCH] Unbreak interactive GPG prompt upon signing Johannes Schindelin
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