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Re: Any reason Cygwin might prevent kubectl exec from showing shell prompt?
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:34 PM, David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
wrote:
> And I note that I tried running the same script from a Linux VM on my
> laptop, and it doesn't have this symptom, so it does seem to have something
> to do with Cygwin or Windows.
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 1:15 PM, David Karr <davidmichaelkarr@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 31.07.2018 um 18:15 schrieb David Karr:
>>>
>>>> I really have no idea if this is a Cygwin problem, just trying to
>>>> eliminate variables.
>>>>
>>>> I believe my Cygwin version is "2.9.0(0.318/5/3)" (from the uname
>>>> string).
>>>>
>>>> From a mintty window, I use a variation of "kubectl exec" in a script
>>>> to
>>>> run a shell in a container in a pod. It appears to run, and I can run
>>>> processes from that shell in the container, but the curious thing is
>>>> that I
>>>> never get a shell prompt from the container. I thought I had gotten
>>>> this
>>>> to work before, in the same k8s cluster, but I'm not certain.
>>>>
>>> This may be an instance of the pty incompatibility issue of native
>>> Windows programs (which I assume kubectl to be).
>>> Try `winpty kubectl`, after installing winpty, that is.
>>> Maybe someone should put up a winpty cygwin package; maybe I should do
>>> it...
>>>
>>
>> I hope this isn't it. This is really the only issue I have with running
>> kubectl in Cygwin. It takes and outputs text perfectly fine. I use pipes
>> for input and output with no issues. When I run kubectl with winpty, it
>> changes the text encoding in ways I don't understand yet.
>>
>
Ok. It's a hack, but I guess it will work. I execute kubectl with a shell
wrapper anyway, so now if "$1" == "exec", I prefix it with "winpty". This
allows all the other operations to avoid that complexity, but still get a
shell prompt on exedc.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> The other curious thing I see is that if I execute "echo $PS1" in the
>>>> shell
>>>> in the container, it gives me a reasonable response ("\w \$"), but if I
>>>> instead do "env | grep PS1", it returns nothing.
>>>>
>>> You may have set PS1 in your .profile (or .bashrc) but not exported it
>>> into the environment (export PS1).
>>>
>>
>> I guess that makes sense. It appears to be irrelevant to my problem.
>>
>>
>
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