[Expectperl-discuss] Can I use expectperl from a sub-process?

[Ed R. <er...@pa...>]

Here's what I'd like to do with Expect.pm:

* Spawn a telnet to somewhere.
* Invoke a subshell
*   From within that subshell, call another Perl program one or more
times to interact with the telnet process spawned by the parent process.

My first try was to write a short Perl program that spawned a telnet,
did an expect to get to the prompt, then did 'system("bash");' to get
into the subshell.  I then invoked program#2 which tried to interact
with the telnet.  I used the pty that the spawned telnet was using
as fd's 0,1 and 2 (found via lsof)  as the filename to re-open with
exp_init(), but that didn't work.  It did sent the data to the pty,
but it was received by the parent program rather than the spawned telnet.
I suspect I'probably running afoul of the pty master/slave business,
which I'm not very familiar with.

Any idea how to get what I want to happen?  Is it even possible?

Thanks,
	-- Ed