Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Trouble with Expect working with Threads

[Austin S. <te...@of...>]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:50:32AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> [...]
> 
> > Does anybody knows why I'm getting this strange behavior ?
> 
> Check the archives.
> 
> From [1] comes:
> 
> >>
> While Expect is supposed to be reasonably threadsafe, IO-Tty is *not*,
> that's where the problems come from. If you want to automate telnet,
> using Net::Telnet with Expect should be possible under threads.
> <<
> 
> I have had issues getting expect to use a spawned Net::Telnet object as
> well (which is "supposed to be" thread safe). After much gnashing of
> teeth, i have given up on Expect and been using Net::Telnet alone; which
> is disappointing, because Expect is much more powerful and elegant than
> Net::Telnet, however many *many* hours were wasted trying to get them to
> work together across a diverse population of Cisco gear.
> 

	Have you tried using exp_init on a Net::Telnet object? That doesn't
use IO::Tty.

	Austin