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Re: Windows mysql client hangs in cygwin ssh shell
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Paul G Cantalupo <lupey+ at pitt dot edu>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:47:33 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Windows mysql client hangs in cygwin ssh shell
- References: <Pine.SOC.4.63.0603240829020.960@unixs2.cis.pitt.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Paul G Cantalupo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I run the Windows mysql client from a cygwin bash shell everything
> works fine. But when I run the Windows mysql client after logging into
> my computer with ssh, then the client hangs - read: I don't see 'Enter
> password:'. If I run a cygwin compiled source version of mysql, it works
> on both the regular bash shell and ssh. So, does this have something to
> do with the Windows client being unable to output to a ssh shell?
Cygwin's ssh (and rxvt, and xterm, and pretty much anything but the
Windows console window) uses pipes to emulate a tty (a "pty"). When
Cygwin applications try to detect whether their output is a tty, Cygwin
provides the right answer. Windows applications don't have access to this
functionality, so the application thinks you're writing to a file and
doesn't do anything interactively. There's really not much you can do
about it without fixing the application somehow. Some applications have a
"force interactive mode" switch, which should work.
HTH,
Igor
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