21748 – tasks that require input from stdio lock up Eclipse

Bug 21748 - tasks that require input from stdio lock up Eclipse

Summary: tasks that require input from stdio lock up Eclipse

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	Ant (show other bugs)
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	PC Windows 2000

Importance:	P3 major (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Platform-Ant-Inbox
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Keywords:	core

Duplicates (2):	28222 56913 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2002-07-22 05:34 EDT by Marco Mulder
Modified:	2009-08-30 02:16 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Marco Mulder

2002-07-22 05:34:32 EDT

Tasks that require input from stdio lock up Eclipse:

- Make sure that "ssh.exe" is on your classpath
- Create a new Simple Project
- Add the following build.xml:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <project default="testssh" name="SSH Project">
    <target name="testssh">
        <exec executable="ssh.exe">
            <arg line="localhost"/>
        </exec>
    </target>
    </project>
- Launch the Ant script from the contect menu on build.xml
- On the Log Console, the following message appears:
    "Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal."
- Eclipse hangs
- Even pressing Cancel does not help

Comment 1 Darin Swanson

2002-10-02 11:32:43 EDT

Working on this after bug 24318

* Ant has now a pluggable way to prompt users for input, which is used
  by the new <input> task.  IDE integrators can provide an
  implementation of the InputHandler interface to decouple Ant's input
  from the console.  An implementation that gets its input from a file
  for unattended builds is part of Ant's distribution.

  For more details see docs/manual/inputhandler.html.

Comment 2 Darin Swanson

2002-10-02 11:34:34 EDT

Sorry annotation was meant for bug 21667

Comment 3 Darin Swanson

2002-12-05 14:34:54 EST

I really do not think that there is much we can do here as the exec effectively 
creates input and output streams that we know nothing about.
As well, from a respected source for Ant (Java development with Ant, Hatcher 
and Loughran, pg 132): "You cannot handle prompts for input at the console.  If 
the application is waiting for user input, Ant just hangs".

Comment 4 Darin Swanson

2002-12-12 18:02:27 EST

*** Bug 28222 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Darin Swanson

2003-01-09 14:46:41 EST

Defer to look at again after 2.1.

Comment 6 Darin Swanson

2003-06-02 17:20:12 EDT

Nothing further planned
Outlined in readme.

Comment 7 Darin Swanson

2004-03-31 11:35:52 EST

*** Bug 56913 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Denis Roy

2009-08-30 02:16:07 EDT

As of now 'LATER' and 'REMIND' resolutions are no longer supported.
Please reopen this bug if it is still valid for you.