Re: [Expectperl-discuss] My tty drama

[Roland G. <RGi...@cp...>]

> Note that if I ran it from the command-line (real tty) it ran fine.

Yes, thats one thing that is still baffling me. You see, I modelled the 
pty allocation code mostly after sshd, so it should work to capture even 
/dev/tty of the spawned process, but it sometimes (on some systems, as a 
daemon, without a user tty) doesn't. Unfortunately, sshd runs as root, 
so it can do some things that normal processes cannot do, and I left out 
those things (if I remember correctly, it has been a while). And pty 
allocation *is* black magic, very heavy black magic indeed.

So, the short answer is: sorry, I don't know why it doesn't work. And 
that's the reason why I always ask people if there is a way to solve the 
problem without using Expect, using ssh/scp/ncftp/Net::Telnet etc. 
instead...

Roland