[Splashy-devel] Aborting getstring/getpass?

[Tim Dijkstra]

Teddy Hogeborn schreef:
> (You replied to me only.  Did you intend to reply to the list?)

yes I intended to send it to the list, I'll reply to it now.

> "Tim Dijkstra" <tim at famdijkstra.org> writes:
>
>>> Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl> writes:
>>>> 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 intend to allocate some free time to work on splashy soon. I'll
>> have a look to see how easy it is to implement.
>
> Excellent!  If this is implemented and released, we can get rid of the
> ugly solution.

Note that I'm not promising anything;)

grts Tim