Re: [Expectperl-discuss] pty dropping data

[Matt Z. <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

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On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 16:18 +0530, kboragouda wrote:
> Hi ,
>  I am using Expect and IO::pty modules for ssh/rsh automation . In
> multithreaded envirnoment IO::Pty module is not working. It fails
> during spawning a process.  But i wanted to create process (spawn)
> within threads.

Expect is thread safe, but IO::Tty is not, perhaps IO::Pty is not
either.

There has been chatter about this before [1].

[1]

http://www.nabble.com/Trouble-with-Expect-working-with-Threads-td11541250.html

>  Please let me know any alternatives/solution for this.

Don't use expect. Use a "native" thread safe perl module. Perhaps
Net::Rsh or Net::SSH::Perl.

Cheers,

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