Shouldn't an extremely basic function like readkey be cross-platform? -----Original Message----- From: fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org [mailto:fpc-pascal-boun...@lists.freepascal.org] On Behalf Of Michael Van Canneyt Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 12:07 PM To: FPC-Pascal users discussions <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Readln a password
On Sun, 27 Nov 2016, Adriaan van Os wrote: >> Dmitry Boyarintsev wrote: >> >>> I'd think you want something simlar on unix. >>> Take a look at man 4 termios >>> specifically at local flag named "ECHO". >>> you want to disable it via tcsetattr() Â (TermIO unit) >> >> Thanks for the hint. I haven't yet tried it, but I would expect it to >> fail,as stty (see stty.c in GNU coreutils) calls tcsetattr and stty >> fails reporting 'stty: stdin isn't a terminal' . > > No, it was my own fault. I were executing '/bin/stty -echo' with > AssignStreams and then StdIn is indeed not a terminal, but a pipe. > When I execute it normally, then stty does work, so I expect tcsetattr to work too. > > So, we can now use Readln without echoing in Terminal.app. There is > still echoing to the Xcode Console window, but let's assume that is a > bug or limitation of Xcode. > > Maybe something to add to the fpc runtime libs ? If you mean in a cross-platform way, I think we would welcome patches :) Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
