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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2015 18:45:03 +0300
From: Shinnok <admin@...nnok.com>
To: "john-dev@...ts.openwall.com" <john-dev@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [john-core] Getting John's stdout unbuffered for Johnny



> On 01 Jun 2015, at 13:02, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:30:42AM +0300, Shinnok wrote:
>>> On May 27, 2015, at 10:56 PM, magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com> wrote:
>>> As far as I'm aware it treats input as a TTY if it is indeed a TTY, nothing weird about that. It doesn't default to reading candidates, there's an option for that.
>> 
>> If that's not the case, then maybe we need _IONBF for stdin on JtR for the non-tty and non stdin cases too. I can't get a char from Johnny to JtR.
> 
> What char are you trying to send and why?  I guess you're doing this to
> trigger the status line, or you're sending 'q' to have it quit gracefully,
> right?  If so, the first hurdle is that currently JtR would expect that
> char to come from its tty, not from stdin.
> 

Yes I'm expecting status lines(from any char besides q). Quitting via q is interesting too, but has less potential now that we've handled proper termination on Windows.
So if we're not in tty and not in stdin candidate mode, what does John do exactly on std input.. Nothing?

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