terminal: set VMIN and VTIME in non-canonical mode

phillipwood · gitster · commit 2c6860211f21 · 2022-02-23T13:30:06.000-08:00
If VMIN and VTIME are both set to zero then the terminal performs
non-blocking reads which means that read_key_without_echo() returns
EOF if there is no key press pending. This results in the user being
unable to select anything when running "git add -p".  Fix this by
explicitly setting VMIN and VTIME when enabling non-canonical mode.

Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood &lt;phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
diff --git a/compat/terminal.c b/compat/terminal.c
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ static int disable_bits(tcflag_t bits)
 	t = old_term;
 
 	t.c_lflag &= ~bits;
+	if (bits & ICANON) {
+		t.c_cc[VMIN] = 1;
+		t.c_cc[VTIME] = 0;
+	}
 	if (!tcsetattr(term_fd, TCSAFLUSH, &t))
 		return 0;
 
@@ -159,7 +163,11 @@ static int disable_bits(DWORD bits)
 
 		if (bits & ENABLE_LINE_INPUT) {
 			string_list_append(&stty_restore, "icanon");
-			strvec_push(&cp.args, "-icanon");
+			/*
+			 * POSIX allows VMIN and VTIME to overlap with VEOF and
+			 * VEOL - let's hope that is not the case on windows.
+			 */
+			strvec_pushl(&cp.args, "-icanon", "min", "1", "time", "0", NULL);
 		}
 
 		if (bits & ENABLE_ECHO_INPUT) {
