From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 20:02:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop unnecessary copying in credential_ask_one
Message-ID: <20140107200221.GB21812@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlhyrd1bz.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:44:00AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > test-terminal only handles stdout and stderr streams as fake terminals.
> > We could pretty easily add stdin for input, as it uses fork() to work
> > asynchronously.  But the credential code does not actually read from
> > stdin. It opens and reads from /dev/tty explicitly. So I think we'd have
> > to actually fake setting up a controlling terminal. And that means magic
> > with setsid() and ioctl(TIOCSCTTY), which in turn sounds like a
> > portability headache.
> 
> I wonder if "expect" has already solved that for us.

I would not be surprised if it did. Though it introduces its own
portability issues, since we cannot depend on having it. But it is
probably enough to just

  test_lazy_prereq EXPECT 'expect --version'

or something. I dunno. I have never used expect, do not have it
installed, and am not excited about introducing a new tool dependency.
But if you want to explore it, be my guest.

-Peff