From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: StandardInput Not Continuing Process Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:20:10 -0800 Message-ID: <7vbp4c2yph.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Chase Brammer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Dec 23 18:20:25 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PVoq0-0001zj-Tj for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:20:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753398Ab0LWRUS (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:20:18 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com ([64.74.157.62]:53549 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752286Ab0LWRUR (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:20:17 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CD63269; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:20:46 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=LEi+1VbZ4S20x4f1wPO/aWZK0SA=; b=sOKSud SD6E4/g2yWdlnoTcPllUbWqi7y3vEEjMUBZ56vjOq94CVxJtMMaiLdYojcCfx8Ji Dg337kSOMg+rwcGfotUO8KGodz/uGZ0ELRT0SjKlNybM6/rHWgOBo2p9u/ZMz6cQ LfbaK1/veuqfec5cEnfz74OPgsTbleQNzAvUI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=YIHaIcOW5W3BNpPwItu8+2IGnSTNQae7 FvqE+fIPEMc5t0rh0EAyYwsZPg8WUiUxoBBnPzAubCo0L50DjCDOIDpvdFrlm5es WC+vQfXKYemjOM8Y0EdpLQWsR1uExJ0ZyNn+Z23Vr2rv2zMuQQCDtw8x/lwborz8 WeLxYhQYqRc= Received: from a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459953268; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:20:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [76.102.170.102]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6EEEA3264; Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:20:41 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Chase Brammer's message of "Thu\, 23 Dec 2010 09\:55\:02 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: F96BAF6A-0EB8-11E0-96AA-C4BE9B774584-77302942!a-pb-sasl-sd.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Certain things do want a real user sitting at the terminal (or GUI) even when the standard streams are connected elsewhere, and password input is one of the obvious things that would explicitly want to read from the tty. Perhaps driving whatever script you are writing via "expect" would work?