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2012-08-06terminal: seek when switching between reading and writingLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+1
When a stdio stream is opened in update mode (e.g., "w+"), the C standard forbids switching between reading or writing without an intervening positioning function. Many implementations are lenient about this, but Solaris libc will flush the recently-read contents to the output buffer. In this instance, that meant writing the non-echoed password that the user just typed to the terminal. Fix it by inserting a no-op fseek between the read and write. The opposite direction (writing followed by reading) is also disallowed, but our intervening fflush is an acceptable positioning function for that alternative. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-12-12add generic terminal prompt functionLibravatar Jeff King1-0/+81
When we need to prompt the user for input interactively, we want to access their terminal directly. We can't rely on stdio because it may be connected to pipes or files, rather than the terminal. Instead, we use "getpass()", because it abstracts the idea of prompting and reading from the terminal. However, it has some problems: 1. It never echoes the typed characters, which makes it OK for passwords but annoying for other input (like usernames). 2. Some implementations of getpass() have an extremely small input buffer (e.g., Solaris 8 is reported to support only 8 characters). 3. Some implementations of getpass() will fall back to reading from stdin (e.g., glibc). We explicitly don't want this, because our stdin may be connected to a pipe speaking a particular protocol, and reading will disrupt the protocol flow (e.g., the remote-curl helper). 4. Some implementations of getpass() turn off signals, so that hitting "^C" on the terminal does not break out of the password prompt. This can be a mild annoyance. Instead, let's provide an abstract "git_terminal_prompt" function that addresses these concerns. This patch includes an implementation based on /dev/tty, enabled by setting HAVE_DEV_TTY. The fallback is to use getpass() as before. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>