2008-03-01 12:00 AEST by Arthur Barrett - using :ssh: input is hijacked, can't answer "a)bort, c)ontinue,..."

Thorsten Schiller writes:
I've just recently started running CVSNT (Windows XP) with the :ssh: 
protocol.  The problem I'm encountering is that if, for example, I try 
to do a 'cvs commit' but then close notepad without editing the log 
message, I can't enter anything at the "a)bort, c)ontinue, e)dit, 
!)reuse this message unchanged for remaining dirs" prompt.  It seems 
like all stdin is ignored and all I'm able to do is CTRL-C to kill cvsnt.

2008-03-01 12:03 AEST by Arthur Barrett - Workaround: Specifcy cvs ci -m "" so the notepad doesn't come up and you are 
not asked the question.

2008-03-01 12:04 AEST by Arthur Barrett - Alexey Panchenko writes:


In the plink_cvsnt.c - plink_connect() function there is the code:
    inhandle = GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE);
    outhandle = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
    errhandle = GetStdHandle(STD_ERROR_HANDLE);
    GetConsoleMode(inhandle, &orig_console_mode);
    SetConsoleMode(inhandle, ENABLE_PROCESSED_INPUT);

and the comment

    /*
     * Turn off ECHO and LINE input modes. We don't care if this
     * call fails, because we know we aren't necessarily running in
     * a console.
     */

It was needed in original putty code, but CVSNT does not send stdin directly
to server, so ssh protocol implementation should not touch stdin at all.