[Mingw-msys] Password reading

[Jon B. <jo...@si...>]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this list or mingw-users is the more appropriate place 
for this query - please let me know if I got it wrong.

I've done the Win32 port for monotone (http://venge.net/monotone), using 
MinGW.  One of the things monotone needs to do is ask the user for a 
password, which needs not to be echoed.  Implementing this for normal 
windows command shells was easy (in fact, I found about 3 different ways 
to make it work - I'm currently using SetConsoleMode to turn off 
ENABLE_ECHO_INPUT).  Getting this to work in MSYS's rxvt appears to be 
impossible.  Having tried lots and lots of different solutions, the only 
way I found of doing this was to emit the vt100 sequences to set the 
background color the same as the foreground color, which... is non-ideal.

Am I stupid?  What's the recommended way of doing this?

-- 
Jon Bright
Silicon Circus Ltd.
http://www.siliconcircus.com