older version of msys-2.0.dll works, current version does not and no version info changed on the name

[ziggy2022]

I have an application written in tcl that was using (in a windows cmd shell) stty -echo to disable the prompt while collecting a password and stty -echo to re-enable it

This worked fine with a previous installation of mysys . with the current version of mysys the "stty -echo" command no longer disables the characters being typed. By process of elimination I discovered that if I take the msys-2.0.dll from the old install and place it in the new install everything works like it did before.

of course old and new versions of the dll have the same version info so it is hard to tell them apart.

Is this behavior change what was intended or is it simply a bug that has crept in?

• OS: [e.g. Windows 10 Pro version 1909 64bit]

[stevenclarke9]

It is an issue in tcl itself or the srcipts in the tcl library directory. The "[stty -echo]" calls the "stty -echo" command in the shell. if you type "stty -echo" in the terminal then what you type will not echo, and when you type "stty echo" in the terminal then you will see what you are typing again.