Re: [Expectperl-discuss] several sequental spawns

[Alexey M. <mo...@no...>]

=F7 =F0=CE=C4, 18.03.2002, =D7 21:18, Austin Schutz =CE=C1=D0=C9=D3=C1=CC:
> 	You would be able to do something like:
> $new_expect =3D Expect->new();
> %{ *$new_expect } =3D %{ *$old_expect };
Looks like an ugly hack probably leading to memory leaks and
unpredictable behaviour :-). My C++'ish past protests against things
like this :-)

> 	If there are a few settings in particular you are interested in
> setting it would probably be easiest to copy them before you destroy
> to old object, e.g.:
> sub copy_settings {
>   my($old,$new) =3D @_;
>   $new->exp_internal($old->exp_internal());
>   ...
> }
sounds reasonable. May be it's time to add a 'clone' function to Expect?
All 'shareable' settings are to be copied inside the func, and unique
ones get re-created... Unfortunately I know too little about an Expect's
object insides for the moment and probably can't say exactly whether
'clone' should allocate a new pty for each new instance etc...

> 	As Roland says, we might want to make this a new sub in the Expect
> module. I'm not sure which items we'd want to have in there by default,
> e.g. terminal params(?).
Hmm, looks like I just repeated your words before reading entire message
:-)...

Thank you and Roland a lot (but I can't see his mail in my box yet :-(
).

Alexey Morozov