On Feb 11 12:18, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:24:30AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Feb 10 18:03, Sylvain Archenault wrote: > >> > On 2/9/2012 7:46 PM, Sylvain Archenault wrote: > >> > I've been using sshpass (http://sourceforge.net/projects/sshpass/) for a > >> > while and it stopped working after I updated cygwin to the last version > >> > 1.7.10-1 (was wokring with 1.7.9). > >> [...] > >> I'm going to contact sshpass author. > > > >Apart from the fact that sshpass is a very dangerous package for your > >security, and that you should prefer using public keys over using > >sshpass, this seems to be not exactly a sshpass problem. Rather it's a > >change in the 1.7.10 Cygwin DLL which triggers this behaviour. > > > >As a temporary workaround, try this patch to sshpass: > > > >--- main.c.orig 2012-02-11 11:22:44.563278057 +0100 > >+++ main.c 2012-02-11 11:16:26.220409437 +0100 > >@@ -265,7 +265,8 @@ int runprogram( int argc, char *argv[] ) > > setsid(); > > // This line makes the ptty our controlling tty. We do not > > otherwise need it open > > slavept=open(name, O_RDWR ); > >- close( slavept ); > >+ //close( slavept ); > >+ open ("/dev/tty", O_RDWR); > > > > close( masterpt ); > > FWIW, as I mentioned in private email, your patch "doesn't work for me".
Uh ok. Somehow I missed the fact that you had my workaorund applied as well. Strange that it works for me. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
