Please treat this as a fairly urgent problem. It's simple to fix, but the
effects of the bug are a severe loss of functionality under Win32.
Several options in the mysql client (--batch, --silent, etc.) have no
corresponding options to reverse that behavior (e.g. --no-batch,
--no-silent, etc.), which is generally accepted option style.
Compounded with this is the fact that the mysql client does a check on
isatty(0) and isatty(1), and if it fails this check, it automatically
forces the client into batch, silent, quit-on-error mode.
Two things need to be done:
(a) There needs to be an option to disable the TTY check in the client.
This is most important when running "mysql" under Emacs (using "sql-mysql")
on non-Unix platforms (which don't have pseudo-ttys). How about "--assume-tty"?
(b) Also, the check of isatty(0), etc., should be done *AFTER* the option
checks, not before, and should be disabled if the option above is set.
Finally, as a matter of style,
(c) Options like "--batch", "--silent", etc., that toggle boolean states,
all need to have opposite options of the form "--no-batch", "--no-silent",
etc. It's enough to implement these as long-form-only.
These changes are actually fairly trivial to implement, and I would have
been glad to submit a patch for this, except that the Win32 port of MySQL
needs Visual C++ to compile, which I don't have access to.
Thanks much in advance,
--
Shankar Unni.
