Hi Jan,

I saw System.console() returns null inside jshell ... but it seems there are 2 vms. I would assume jshell itself sets the terminal to raw and then call System.console()? for example an alternative for this issue is to ask jshell's impl to call System.console() before going into raw mode? No, I'm not saying the proposed one is not a good one,
just wanted to make sure I understand the situation correctly.

Thanks,
Sherman


On 4/25/18, 4:50 AM, Jan Lahoda wrote:
Hi,

Under:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8194750

j.i.Console was changed to capture the state of the terminal echo at creation time, and to restore it on shutdown.

That is problematic at least in jshell, where the terminal is already in the raw mode when j.i.Console is created, and so "echo disabled" is recorded there. So even though jshell itself sets the terminal into the original mode when it terminates, the shutdown hook in j.i.Console, which is run later, sets the echo to off even if it was enabled before the VM started.

My understanding is that the shutdown hook is only needed in case the VM goes down while readPassword is running. So I tried to change the shutdown hook to only work while readPassword is running.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202105
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlahoda/8202105/webrev.00/

What do you think?

Thanks,
    Jan

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