RE: [Expectperl-discuss] problem with Expect::spawn() when runnin g in background on Solaris

[Simon T. <se...@no...>]

I have had similar experience with this.
I don't have a solution but my investigations indicated it might be shell
specific - what shell are you using on Solaris?
I originally wanted to extend my app to use POE but the processes kept
hanging as soon as they were forked and run in the bg.

Simon 

-----Original Message-----
From: exp...@li...
[mailto:exp...@li...] 
Sent: 02 November 2004 18:36
To: exp...@li...
Cc: 'Eric Feng'
Subject: [Expectperl-discuss] problem with Expect::spawn() when running in
background on Solaris

Hi, I am having problem with the following perl program which calls
Expect::spawn() when running in background on Solaris. It got suspended.

% cat bg.pl

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5.6

use Expect;

my $exp = Expect->spawn("echo hello");
$exp->soft_close();

% bg.pl
hello

% bg.pl &
[1] 2191
% 
[1]  + Suspended (tty output)        bg.pl

% fg
bg.pl
Hello

It works fine on linux (both foreground and background). Is this a perl bug
or solaris bug? Is there a setting/workaround to get it to work in
background on solaris? Any help is appreciated.

I am using perl5.6, the Expect moduls is the latest I downloaded on CPAN,
the Solaris OS is both 5.6 and 5.8.

-Eric Feng



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