[Splashy-devel] Aborting getstring/getpass?

[Teddy Hogeborn]

Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl> writes:

>> 4. network client program gets password from network server, and
>>    signals splashy client program to abort.
>
> It would make sense to kill the splashy_update program that sent the
> getpass request instead (which should still have the socket open to
> wait for the result, AFAIU?). The resulting socket close can then be
> picked up by splashy, which can remove the prompt (since there's
> nowhere to send the password anymore anyway).

I agree completely.  In fact, I even assumed it would work this way,
until I tried it.  :)

> This would probably be easy to implement in splashy (perhaps it even
> works already?), I think?

Alas, it does not work.  (Unfortunately I have no idea how easy it
would be to implement.)

/Teddy, Mandos Developer

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