Does anyone know how to open pseudo - tty for libssh2?
On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Paresh Thakor wrote:
> And if i unveil a bit more than mobile terminal is file-based, constantly updating terminal file and o/p data from it. And libssh is not file based not constantly updating any selected file, so, can we make this file-based, so, o/p from libssh can be buffered in selected file? So, we can get the o/p from that selected file?
>
> Is this possible?
> Our libssh2 is not working as expected or we might not know something so we can make this working.!
>
> Regards.
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 2:17 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
>
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Paresh Thakor wrote:
>>> After close inspection and debugging methods, we've come to know that
>>> the application doesn't use libssh. It uses built-in terminal (TTY)
>>> through files. Like, dumping all commands and o/p in a file.
>>
>> The terminal emulator is a very significant piece of code and it is
>> the only thing that solves your problem. Use mobileterminal or
>> another terminal emulator that fits your environment.
>>
>>
>>> And the code is written with fully integration with other classes,
>>> so, generally very time consuming to get it work for our application.
>>
>> Re-purposing the terminal emulator in mobileterminal is *surely*
>> *much* less time consuming than implementing your own terminal
>> emulator.
>>
>>
>>> I tried to use libssh2 for the application with a try. But not able
>>> to parse the output because output in mobile terminal comes from
>>> dumped file which is not the case for libssh2.
>>
>> So what? You have the source code, write some glue that connects the
>> two together. Forget about the files. The terminal emulator part of
>> mobileterminal is the kind of code that you need to solve your
>> problem.
>>
>>
>>> i've tried to decode o/p from libssh2 command execution but not
>>> very easy to make it done.
>>
>> Of course the output does not come from libssh2 - SSH is a clean
>> transport that never influences the data being sent.
>>
>> It is difficult for you to decode output from commands which expect
>> to be connected to a terminal, because you are not a terminal, and
>> because you are not using a terminal emulator.
>>
>> Use a terminal emulator, whose purpose is to understand the output
>> from commands that expect to be connected to a terminal.
>>
>>
>>> libssh2 command execution as it's because it's working in my
>>> application.
>> Just trying to reuse the decoding functionality for the app, so, i
>> can make the o/p to be displayed on the screen (UIView).
>>
>> UIView is most likely completely useless as a terminal widget. My
>> guess is that you would get the best result from using mobileterminal
>> or another complete terminal emulator which is already implemented on
>> your platform.
>>
>>
>>> Could you please suggest me something so i can reuse for my
>>> application?
>>
>> No I can not! Why should I? I have no iPhone and I don't develop
>> iPhone apps. This is the libssh2 mailing list, not a mailing list
>> about terminal emulators for the iPhone.
>>
>> I did one search on google.com looking for a terminal emulator for
>> iphone and I found the mobileterminal project *immediately*. It looks
>> to me like mobileterminal solves the bulk of your problem. What
>> remains is for you to produce some glue code between the terminal
>> emulator and libssh2.
>>
>> Obviously you did not bother to do the same search.. I'm sure you can
>> understand that this makes me very unmotivated to help you any
>> further.
>>
>>
>>> I am somewhat stuck with the application, due to VI and nano
>>> editior commands and top command as well..!
>>
>> Too bad. You need a terminal emulator, mobileterminal looked like a
>> good fit, but if you are unable to use it then you should of course
>> search for an alternative. This mailing list is not a good place to
>> search, since this mailing list is about the libssh2 project, which
>> really is quite independent from terminal emulators.
>>
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> //Peter
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Received on 2010-07-15