RE: [Expectperl-discuss] Problem running in bg

[Anders W. <And...@ac...>]

If I remember correctly, it never makes it out of the call to spawn, so I
can't do that.

anders

-----Original Message-----
From: Austin Schutz [mailto:te...@of...] 
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 12:53 PM
To: ex...@ih...
Cc: exp...@li...; jas...@su...
Subject: Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Problem running in bg

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:23:20AM -0700, ex...@ih... wrote:
> > 
> > print STDERR "launching\n";
> > my $exp = Expect->new();
> > $exp->spawn("/sbin/sh");
> > print STDERR "launched\n";

> > % ./test.pl
> > launching
> > launched
> > 
> > % ./test.pl &
> > [3] 4179
> > % launching
> > [3]  + Suspended (tty output) ./test.pl
> > 

	Have you tried reading from the tty to see if that wakes sh up?
i.e.:

$exp->spawn("/sbin/sh");
$exp->expect(undef,'$ ');
print STDERR "launched\n";

	Austin


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