Please treat this as a fairly urgent problem. It's simple to fix, but the effects of the bug are a severe loss of functionality under Win32.
Several options in the mysql client (--batch, --silent, etc.) have no corresponding options to reverse that behavior (e.g. --no-batch, --no-silent, etc.), which is generally accepted option style. Compounded with this is the fact that the mysql client does a check on isatty(0) and isatty(1), and if it fails this check, it automatically forces the client into batch, silent, quit-on-error mode. Two things need to be done: (a) There needs to be an option to disable the TTY check in the client. This is most important when running "mysql" under Emacs (using "sql-mysql") on non-Unix platforms (which don't have pseudo-ttys). How about "--assume-tty"? (b) Also, the check of isatty(0), etc., should be done *AFTER* the option checks, not before, and should be disabled if the option above is set. Finally, as a matter of style, (c) Options like "--batch", "--silent", etc., that toggle boolean states, all need to have opposite options of the form "--no-batch", "--no-silent", etc. It's enough to implement these as long-form-only. These changes are actually fairly trivial to implement, and I would have been glad to submit a patch for this, except that the Win32 port of MySQL needs Visual C++ to compile, which I don't have access to. Thanks much in advance, -- Shankar Unni. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
