From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sascha Wilde Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fix needed for communication with gpg-agent Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:58:20 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87irdzs6pp.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87r6siy5he.fsf@wheatstone.g10code.de> <87abz4cv8l.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <878xeoiezq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172311134 32755 80.91.229.12 (24 Feb 2007 09:58:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:58:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Werner Koch , Chong Yidong , ueno@unixuser.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 24 10:58:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HKtfy-00051Y-H6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:58:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKtfy-0003ut-Ar for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:58:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKtfh-0003tF-6n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:58:29 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HKtfe-0003qd-V5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:58:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HKtfe-0003qV-Pp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:58:26 -0500 Original-Received: from ns.km1136.keymachine.de ([62.141.58.119] helo=km1136.keymachine.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HKtfc-0001bf-Du; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 04:58:24 -0500 Original-Received: from kenny.sha-bang.de (xdslde216.osnanet.de [89.166.158.216]) (authenticated bits=0) by km1136.keymachine.de (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l1O9wHJM028313; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:58:17 +0100 Original-Received: from wilde by kenny.sha-bang.de with local (Kenny MUA v.0409034.42) ID 1HKtfY-0003hj-Jr; Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:58:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Kim F. Storm's message of "Sat\, 24 Feb 2007 01\:57\:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:66736 Archived-At: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) wrote: > Ok, so you say that Emacs does monopolise the tty, reading all input (or > at least blocking anyone else from reading from the tty). > > IIRC, someone else said that pinentry was able to read _something_ but > that it was very difficult to actually read a working password (because > Emacs would read some of the input). > > So what's the truth here? It was me who wrote the later -- and it describes exactly what I experienced on my tests. sascha -- Sascha Wilde -.-. ..- .-. .. --- ... .. - -.-- -.- .. .-.. .-.. . -.. - .... . -.-. .- -