Re: Tracking down EIO problem when invoking external commands via dejagnu

[Ben Elliston]

Hi Simon

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 01:55:30PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> This may be a tcl or expect bug, but I suspect 'local_exec' in
> DejaGnu's remote.exp is the problem.  I've created a small snippet
> that reproduce the problem.  It contains a stripped down copy of
> local_exec.  Here's the output:

I have managed to prune your test case down to something much smaller
that also demonstrates the problem:

  [foo.exp]

  spawn cp /dev/null /tmp/foo
  expect { timeout { puts "timed out" } }
  puts [wait]

I am still digging down to work out what is going on.

Cheers, Ben