| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bradley McLean <brad(at)bradm(dot)net>, Adam Osuchowski <adwol(at)polsl(dot)gliwice(dot)pl> |
| Subject: | Re: psql: default base and password reading |
| Date: | 2001-10-13 17:14:32 |
| Message-ID: | 200110131714.f9DHEWA21586@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> >> On second thought --- are we creating any portability problems if we
> >> assume /dev/tty exists? In particular, what about the Windows port
> >> of psql? Will it still work?
>
> > I am sure cygwin takes care of this.
>
> Please recall that we have a *native* port of psql ... cygwin doesn't
> help.
OK, I read up on how BSD/OS does this and found getpass():
The getpass() function displays a prompt to, and reads in a password
from, /dev/tty. If this file is not accessible, getpass displays the
prompt on the standard error output and reads from the standard
input.
So even it tries for /dev/tty and falls back to stdin/stderr. The
attached patch does this.
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