> Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 19:54:06 -0400 > From: "E. S." <[email protected]> > > A few months ago I tried running the db2 CLP from within emacs but it kept > hanging at the password prompt. I noticed similar behavior if, in python, I > used getpass.getpass(). That function works fine until I get to > msvcrt.getch(), which hangs in the python comint buffer (using > python-mode.el if anybody's interested). The getpass function loops like > this: > > while 1: > c = msvcrt.getch() > if c == '\r' or c == '\n': > break > ... > else: > pw = pw + c > > If I modify slightly and check just msvcrt.kbhit() in a loop to see if any > keystroke ever gets noticed, that function never returns true; I thought > that maybe it was just a getch thing. I can only guess that the db2 CLP is > also trying to make a low-level call to the windows api, but it's not > working correctly from within emacs (outside of emacs everything works > fine).
Could this have something to do with the fact that Emacs has a separate input thread that wants to get keyboard inputs from the same console? Could it be that Emacs and getch fight for the same inputs, and Emacs wins?
