pinetry and emacs

[Phillip Susi]

Phillip Susi writes:

> It was pinentry-curses.  I tried switching to pinentry-tty and it rapes
> the tty even worse than the curses one.  At least some keystrokes
> occasionally had some effect with the curses one.  With This one nothing
> I hit would do anything.  Couldn't get it to eventually think I entered
> a wrong password and give up, couldn't C-c, C-g, or C-z; I just had to
> use ~. to force ssh to hang up.  Why and how is this program so abusive
> of the terminal?

Weird... I ran strace on the program from another terminal and could see
that it was reading each keystroke, but continued to read after seeing
the \r.  I hit C-j ( \n ) and it finally recognized the end of input.
I'm thinking that it requires that tty mode that appends a \n to a \r to
be enabled, but it doesn't bother enabling it when it takes over the
tty.