I was seeing the issue similarly last night.  I may need to create a
command line entry dialog box for prompt is what I was thinking.

Dirk

On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 18:51 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello Dirk,
> 
> I have analysed the problem of bat getting confused when the Director sends 
> an 
> unexpected PROMPT -- in fact, as far as I can see, it is probably any prompt 
> that is not the MAIN_PROMPT or a PROMPT after a START SELECT.
> 
> In most cases, such as a START SELECT, you go into a special dialog handler, 
> which then reads all the input lines, and responds to the Directory.  
> 
> In the case of a PROMPT not following a START SELECT, bat is in a wait state 
> and when the user enters a response in the command line a notification will 
> come in and ultimately call input_line(), which wll call consoleCommand() in 
> the Pager, and that is where everything goes wrong, because consoleCommand() 
> will then choose any available conn connection to send the user's response, 
> rather than the conn that was where the original PROMPT originated.  Bottom 
> line: a prompt request comes in on conn=0 and the user's response will be 
> sent out on conn=1, which of course does not work.
> 
> So, either we need some default handler for a PROMPT, or some other solution, 
> and unfortunately, I don't know how the m_conn stuff is handled well enough 
> to work out a solution.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Kern


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