From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: zpty woes
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 16:26:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805151526.m4FFQRQg017071@news01.csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080515145054.GC5190@sc.homeunix.net>
Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:18:57PM +0100, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> > Jaime Vargas wrote:
> > > In the script attached, when trying to follwing line always fails.
> > >
> > > zpty -r scppty line "*:" || echo "no password asked" && exit
> > >
> > > It appears that the "password" string from the ssh session is discarded
> > > by the psuedo terminal.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to fix this? or Am I missing something?
> >
> > To work around this, you need to use non-blocking mode, i.e. start with
> > "zpty -b scppty ...".
>
> It works for me without "-b", why would you say "-b" is
> necessary?
OK, it works without -b if and only if you have the pattern. That
stops it needing the newline. I said the code was tortuous.
> The problem I've found is that zpty -r doesn't return when the
> command in the pty has terminated. A strace -p shows:
>
> read(12, 0xb7ba04c8, 1) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
Highly plausible. That's likely to be the loop where it waits for the
pattern regardless.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-15 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-15 12:02 Jaime Vargas
2008-05-15 13:10 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-05-15 13:18 ` Peter Stephenson
2008-05-15 14:50 ` Stephane Chazelas
2008-05-15 15:26 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2008-05-15 16:25 ` Jaime Vargas
2008-05-15 16:36 ` * " Peter Stephenson
[not found] ` <99E8D43E-EC34-48DB-A5AD-BFA197A3AAA3@mac.com>
2008-05-15 17:03 ` Stephane Chazelas
[not found] ` <480CEB80051F27AE@mac.com>
2008-05-15 17:38 ` Jaime Vargas
2008-05-15 17:53 ` Jaime Vargas
2008-05-20 3:25 ` Jaime Vargas
2008-05-20 14:28 ` zpty woes (enhancement request) Jaime Vargas
2008-05-20 16:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2008-05-15 13:26 ` zpty woes Stephane Chazelas
2008-05-15 15:44 ` Peter Stephenson
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