Fix several problems with simple_prompt() --- the nastiest being that

the entered password would get echoed on some platforms, eg HPUX.
We have enough copies of this code that I'm thinking it ought to be
moved into libpq, but that's a task for another day.

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/src/bin/psql/common.c b/src/bin/psql/common.c
index b0572186d8b..336d8138783 100644
--- a/src/bin/psql/common.c
+++ b/src/bin/psql/common.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright 2000 by PostgreSQL Global Development Group
  *
- * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/psql/common.c,v 1.35 2001/10/15 16:40:27 momjian Exp $
+ * $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/bin/psql/common.c,v 1.36 2001/10/18 21:57:11 tgl Exp $
  */
 #include "postgres_fe.h"
 
@@ -169,15 +169,14 @@ NoticeProcessor(void *arg, const char *message)
  *
  * Returns a malloc()'ed string with the input (w/o trailing newline).
  */
-static bool prompt_state;
+static bool prompt_state = false;
 
 char *
 simple_prompt(const char *prompt, int maxlen, bool echo)
 {
 	int			length;
 	char	   *destination;
-	static FILE *termin = NULL, *termout;
-
+	FILE *termin, *termout;
 #ifdef HAVE_TERMIOS_H
 	struct termios t_orig,
 				t;
@@ -187,22 +186,22 @@ simple_prompt(const char *prompt, int maxlen, bool echo)
 	if (!destination)
 		return NULL;
 
-	prompt_state = true;
+	prompt_state = true;		/* disable SIGINT */
 
-	/* initialize the streams */
-	if (!termin)
-	{
-		if ((termin = termout = fopen("/dev/tty", "w+")) == NULL)
-		{
-			termin = stdin;
-			termout = stderr;
-		}
-	}
-	
-	if (prompt)
+	/*
+	 * Do not try to collapse these into one "w+" mode file.
+	 * Doesn't work on some platforms (eg, HPUX 10.20).
+	 */
+	termin = fopen("/dev/tty", "r");
+	termout = fopen("/dev/tty", "w");
+	if (!termin || !termout)
 	{
-		fputs(gettext(prompt), termout);
-		rewind(termout); /* does flush too */
+		if (termin)
+			fclose(termin);
+		if (termout)
+			fclose(termout);
+		termin = stdin;
+		termout = stderr;
 	}
 
 #ifdef HAVE_TERMIOS_H
@@ -211,22 +210,18 @@ simple_prompt(const char *prompt, int maxlen, bool echo)
 		tcgetattr(fileno(termin), &t);
 		t_orig = t;
 		t.c_lflag &= ~ECHO;
-		tcsetattr(fileno(termin), TCSADRAIN, &t);
+		tcsetattr(fileno(termin), TCSAFLUSH, &t);
 	}
 #endif
-
-	if (fgets(destination, maxlen, termin) == NULL)
-		destination[0] = '\0';
-
-#ifdef HAVE_TERMIOS_H
-	if (!echo)
+	
+	if (prompt)
 	{
-		tcsetattr(fileno(termin), TCSADRAIN, &t_orig);
-		fputs("\n", termout);
+		fputs(gettext(prompt), termout);
+		fflush(termout);
 	}
-#endif
 
-	prompt_state = false;
+	if (fgets(destination, maxlen, termin) == NULL)
+		destination[0] = '\0';
 
 	length = strlen(destination);
 	if (length > 0 && destination[length - 1] != '\n')
@@ -247,6 +242,23 @@ simple_prompt(const char *prompt, int maxlen, bool echo)
 		/* remove trailing newline */
 		destination[length - 1] = '\0';
 
+#ifdef HAVE_TERMIOS_H
+	if (!echo)
+	{
+		tcsetattr(fileno(termin), TCSAFLUSH, &t_orig);
+		fputs("\n", termout);
+		fflush(termout);
+	}
+#endif
+
+	if (termin != stdin)
+	{
+		fclose(termin);
+		fclose(termout);
+	}
+
+	prompt_state = false;		/* SIGINT okay again */
+
 	return destination;
 }