Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Is it possible to interrupt spawned session (like Ctrl-C)

[Bruno N. <bn...@gm...>]

Why don't you add a signal handler to your perl script that when it
receives the CTRL-C
it calls the

 $exp->hard_close();

on the spawned expect object?

regards,

bruno


On 7/6/07, Ken Irving <fn...@ua...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 12:26:20AM -0700, markgo wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > In some script I'm sending the command that runs some tool that could only
> > be stopped by pressing Ctrl-C. It does not wait for any input. Is there any
> > way to simulate this Ctrl-C (that is SIGINT) except closing the session?
> >
> > Currently it looks like that:
> >
> > $session = new Expect;
> > $session->spawn("su - $user_name") or die "..."; # Script runs as root
> > $session->expect(....);
> > ...
> >
> > $session->send("sudo $tool");
> >
> > ...
> >
> > This is a tool I'd like to interrupt.
> >
> > $session->send("\cC") does not work, I suppose because the tool is not
> > waiting for input.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Mark
>
> Why not just send the signal directly to the process:
>
>    kill SIGINT $tool_pid;
>
> Ken
>
> --
> Ken Irving, fn...@ua...
>
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