Re: [webmin-devel] pty_process_exec

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 12:27, Tan Rezaei wrote:
> I am trying to get this to work but I get a "-1" as my $rv when I run it. I 
> am not sure what I am doing wrong.
> 
> 	&foreign_require("proc", "proc-lib.pl");
> 	($fh, $pid) = &proc::pty_process_exec("$driver -UR $pdline $sys $tab");
> 	while(1) {
> 		$rv = &wait_for($fh, "Are you sure you want to continue (Yy)\?");
> 		print $rv;
> 		if ($rv == 0) {
> 			print "Saying Yes";
> 			sysprint($fh, "y\n");
> 			}
> 		else {
> 			last;
> 			}
> 		}
> 	close($fh);
> 
> 
> And my prompt looks like this when I run the command from the terminal:
> 
> This option will also remove all of the data.
> Are you sure you want to continue (Yy)?
> 
> I need to type in "y" here and hit enter here.
> 
> I have also tried maney other patterns in place of "Are you sure you want to 
> continue (Yy)?"
> 
> I even tried just "\?" or "\\?" nothing seems to work.
> 
> Thanks for your help

You could try changing the wait_for call to something like :

$rv = &wait_for($fh, 'Are you sure you want to continue \(Yy\)\?');

Quoting the (, ) and ? characters is important, as the parameters to
wait_for are regular expressions.

 - Jamie