Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Use console, not stdin/stderr, for prompting

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Peter Samuelson <peter_at_p12n.org> wrote:
>
> [Peter Samuelson]
>> Hrrrmph.  I think libsvn_subr/prompt.c could use a large dose of
>> "/dev/tty".  Right now it mostly uses stderr and stdin, but for
>> password prompts it uses /dev/tty on modern Unix ... indirectly,
>> by calling apr_password_get() which calls getpass(), an OS library
>> function.
>
> Concept patch - not tested.  Does this seem reasonable?  I'd really
> prefer to do all our prompting on the terminal.  The fact that this
> frees up stdin for things like 'svn patch' and 'svnrdump load' is only
> one reason.

Would this cause issues for apps that drive the command line
programmatically without a console? For example, a Java web app that
does some SVN commands from within the app server?

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Thanks
Mark Phippard
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