Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Has anyone re-written original dislocate in Expect.pm?

[Roland G. <RGiersig@CPAN.org>]

> The 'dislocate' allows a user to run a UNIX application from a terminal
> window, abandon it but let the process continue, and then connect back
> into the process as if you had never left it.  The good thing about the
> script is that you can logoff the machine from work and login at home
> and continue to monitor your process.

Ah, I remember!  That has been covered in detail in the Expect book.  
No, I don't know if anybody is working on that, but it seems like a splendid
idea to have such a tool around.  You might want to take a look at IPC::Run
(which BTW also makes use of IO::Pty), which overlaps with Expects 
interconnect() functionality and might be more suitable for such a tool. 
 
I don't want to discourage the use of Expect, but I see Perl/Expect with 
a more limited functionality, more in the Unix tradition of one fundamental 
functionality per module, not the do-it-all-and-more approach of Tcl/Expect.

Just my EUR 0.02

Roland
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