This is the HISTORY file for Expect. Modifications made by Cygnus
support are in ChangeLog. - Don
Date Version Description
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6/15/98 5.26.1 Dean Sauder <dsauder@dcn.att.com> noted C-preprocessor lines in
configure must start in column 0.
5/18/98 5.26.0 Kevin Schleicher <kms@lucent.com> noted xkibitz leaves xterms
if first xterm is HUP'd. Kevin also noticed a resource leak
in dislocate. Both problems fixed.
Robbie Gilbert <rwg@fns.com> noted expect_devtty was logging
devtty (twice) to stdout. Fixed.
Added support inttypes.h, required on Solaris 5.6 for termios.h
Kristina <kristina@greatbasin.net> noted that tip failed when
spawned from a cgi script (BSDI BSD/OS 3.1 i386) because tip
didn't see a definition for SHELL and HOME. They need to be
set. (Doesn't have to be anything useful; the empty string is
fine!) Solution: documented this in Expect man page.
Zachariah Baum <zack@studioarchetype.com> noted that config.sub
didn't grok Intel 686. Found a newer version that did in
autoconf-2.11.
POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY: Changed interact so that it observes
parity while matching. It used to ignore parity. This impacts
people who use interact to connect through to a real serial
device that generates parity. If matches don't work, use the
exp_parity command. (This fix should have been made years ago,
when the exp_parity command was added. It is now absolutely
necessary now that people are doing matching with 8 bits.)
After the second occurrence of a system admin who broke grantpt
by removing setuid from the relevant system util, I added an
explicit test and explanation.
Disabled history in xkibitz. There seems to be some new
incestuous relationship between history and unknown now so that
redefining unknown leaves Tcl calling history but without
knowing what it is because it's never been defined (as it would
be by the traditional unknown).
Fixed quoting bug in passwd.cgi example.
9/28/97 5.25.0 Switched back to hand-generating pkgIndex.tcl file after too
many complaints about problems running pkg_mkIndex.
8/12/97 5.24.1 Chris Schanzle <chris@goof2.ncsl.nist.gov> pointed out that
install fails on a virgin file system because install_shared_
lib depends on a directory that hasn't yet been created.
Larry Virden gave corrections to URLs in README.
8/21/97 5.24.0 Bo Johansson <bo.johansson@mbox2.swipnet.se> noted TclWordEnd
had changed and provided fix. This caused crash in expect.
8/18/97 5.23.0 This version supports Tcl 8.0 and continues support for 7.6.
Refs to Tcl_Files dropped. inter_return and close became
obj cmds. Rewrote notifier (again) to accomodate new notifier
model. Lots of other miscellaneous tweaks. Also see debugger
HISTORY file.
Finally removed long-deprecated commands "continue -expect",
"send_spawn", and "getpid" and their exp_ versions.
Harold Brauer <harold.brauer@canada.cdev.com> reported problems
with an old SCO system (i386-unknown-sco3.2v5.0) that turned
out to be due to a typo in the configure script.
Jimmy Aitken supplied mods to config.guess for brand new and
very old Pyramid systems.
Buz Owen noted memory leak in use of expect_background (with
no args).
Jonathon Kamens noted provided patch for pty_termios.c for
modern Sequent (which ptmx).
Jonathon Kamens noted that TCL defined RANLIB for shared lib
(if --enabled-shared) which isn't appropriate when Expect tries
to build both shared and unshared libs.
Jonathon Kamens noted that shared lib config didn't work on
SunOS. I had used Tcl's SHLIB_SUFFIX instead of its
SHARED_LIB_SUFFIX.
Qingyi Liao <liao@casabyte.com> encountered core dump when
exp_bg -i $exp_spawn_any was retracted. Bug in ecmd_remove_fd.
Fixed a bunch of bugs in example/gethostbyaddr.
Josef Sachs noted that stty cannot be caught when no /dev/tty.
It calls exit instead of returning an error.
Gordon Chaffee <chaffee@plateau.CS.Berkeley.EDU> patched
Exp_WaitCmd - it was zeroing pid element instead of wait.
Bob Manson <manson@cygnus.com> provided fix for HP on which it
was possible for timer to be mistakenly deleted in
exp_get_next_event while processing a pty open event.
Jeff Slonaker <JSlonaker@osc.uscg.mil> noted that exp_poll.c
had wrong signature and poll had arguments out of order! That
would suggest that no one has ever used exp_poll.c before...
5.22.1 Larry Virden noted that TCL_BUILD_LIB_SPEC can't be used if
build directory has been removed. Added check to configure.
Worked more on package command. Buz Owen pointed out that my
code wouldn't support redefinition of TCL_LIBRARY. Bumped up
minor version to avoid package loading mishaps.
Nigel Standing <nigel@idiom.com> noted lack of C-u binding in
tkpasswd - must be due to change in tk4.2.
Forced env(SHELL) to be defined inside kibitz for when using
with CGI.
Charles Packer <packer@fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov> noted that CRAY-YMP
needed sys/types.h in exp_console.c
Extra / when developing defn of TCL_LIBRARY. Shouldn't
actually cause any problems though.
2/3/97 5.22.0 Fixed package support - again. Sigh.
David Pasirstein <dpasirst@sun.cs.wcupa.edu> noted that RedHat
Linux 2nd passwd prompt requires slightly different pattern -
modified mkpasswd and tkpasswd.
Toshiaki Nomura <nom@yk.fujitsu.co.jp> provided patch to
config.guess for Fujitsu DS/90.
Roger Brooks <R.S.Brooks@liverpool.ac.uk> noted C lib passed
argv[0] instead of file to first arg of execvp.
Cary D. Renzema <caryr@mxim.com> noted that a simple puts -nnl
might never appear - Expect closes all of its fds before Tcl
gets a chance to flush. Stdout is the obvious problem since
Expect thinks it can cavalierly close that too. Hmm.
At request of Tom Tromey, solved possible missing tclRegexp.h
problem by having Expect install it. Cleaned up TCLHDIR and
TCL_LIBRARY hackery in Makefile.
12/27/96 5.21.7 Nelson Beebe noted unset is not portable in /bin/sh. Removed
and converted everything to understand CONFIG_SHELL.
Modified cryptdir to strip out shell metachars from filenames.
12/10/96 5.21.6 Michael Schumacher noted that some systems cannot build
unshared libs from shared objects. Chose to go with BLT's
approach of building shared objs in separate shared directory.
Buz Owen <ado@bbn.com> noted that "package require Expect"
didn't work because it looked for Expect lib in the wrong
place (well, the "documented" place). The problem is that Tcl
insists libraries should be in the same directory as the
pkgIndex.tcl file while the natural thing to do would be to
split them up and put the .tcl file in the arch-indepent
app-specific scripts dir and the lib in the arch-dependent
common dir. Sigh. If this is ever fixed/changed, the
instructions in the Makefile should be fixed.
<Van.Trinh@siemenscom.com> noted that expect library name
exceed filename max on some systems - like his old SCO.
12/4/96 5.21.5 Michael Schumacher noted new configure wasn't passing on Tcl's
shared lib cflags.
10/26/96 5.21.4 Achyutram Bhamidipaty <ram@epic.com> ran into bugs in Expect's
file event handler which prevented expectk from entering
implied event loop. Also found one memory problem - thanks
to CenterLine.
Tom Tromey fixed handling of --enable-shared when overriding
Tcl's value et al. Tom also added missing "else true" to
Makefile: "In a Makefile, you have to always supply an "else"
clause for an "if", to work around a bug in certain versions of
sh. In some versions of sh, an "if" whose test fails will
return the status of the test if there is no "else" clause --
causing spurious make failures." See ChangeLog.
10/18/96 5.21.3 Example directory was missing several examples.
10/17/96 5.21.2 Debugger section of configure file corrupted.
10/10/96 5.21.1 Oops, distribution unpacked into wrong version.
Tom Tromey provided patch for stty to understand OSF 4.0.
9/28/96 5.21.0 Official Expect release for Tcl 7.5.
Junio Hamano <junio@twinsun.com> provided fixes for aclocal
for with_tcl/tkconfig.
Roger Billau <rfbilla@amtnet.sandia.gov> noted that C library
didn't work on Solaris 2.5. Turns out Solaris requires fflush
be called between input and output operations on FILE pointers.
Lots of Cygnus mods - see ChangeLog.
Sid Cowles <scowles@incyte.com> and Hans Riethmann
<hans@F1.telekurs.ch> noted relative path specs of tcl-includes
(and others) caused debugger config to fail since it is at a
different directory level.
Al Snow <asnow@fuwutai.att.com> noted -C failed due to typo.
8/17/96 5.20b18 Andrew Rakowski <andrew.rakowski@nr.usu.edu> noted no defn of
LIB_RUNTIME_DIR, a creation of Tcl7.5p1.
Tom Tromey added -v to Expect and -version to Expectk.
Ben Boule <bboule@xylogics.com> noted that Interactive (IUNIX)
requires 9 char max length after -l. Looks like squeezing out
the "." is sufficient. He also noted that IUNIX needs -Xp in
LIBS to find strftime. This test should really be done by Tcl.
8/12/96 5.20b17 Glen Biagioni <glen@prosoft.com> noted interact -re "A(xx)"
failed to match. Problem turned out to be that Tcl 7.5 changed
a constant which in the regexp code, which Expect didn't see
because it provides its own defn for interact. Alas, the one
thing Expect reuses from Tcl was where the change was. This
should really be fixed so Expect doesn't rely on Expect in this
way, but there's no point in putting in a lot of work on regexp
when we're anticipating a new one soon anyway.
Bjorn S. Nilsson <nilsson@nbivms.nbi.dk> noted fixcat hangs.
Turned out that new Tcl (7.5p1) now waits for all children to
disappear. But Expect still had a handle to a child. I added
an exit handler to close the connections before Tcl's exit
handler.
Tom Tromey provided patch to support augmenting CFLAGS on
Makefile invocation.
Gary Merinstein <gmerin@panix.com> noted that configure failed
on his linux unless it had --enabled-shared. Not quite sure
about how this can be, but the flag wasn't being passed to the
debugger's configure, so I've fixed that and hopefully this
will cure the original prob.
Added initial announcement of full version at beginning of
configure. This should ease my pain in responding to people
sending me config output without including version numbers.
Tom Tromey noted expect_cf.h was machine dependent. Fixed
expect_comm.h so that it no longer required expect_cf.h (which
should be renamed to indicate it is no longer public).
Bart Robinson <lomew@cs.utah.edu> provides mods to support
openpty() in FreeBSD/NetBSD. Without openpty, Expect doesn't
see the full pty namespace (ptyX[0-v]).
7/15/96 5.20b16 Nathan Estey <nfe@the-hermes.net> noted that Makefile failed
on SunOS when shared libs were enabled due to incomplete dot
stripping in lib prefix.
7/6/96 5.20b15 Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolmt@geko.net.au> noted that shared lib
has to be installed before building expect. Also noted that
ldconfig should be run on Linux 2.0 systems and maybe others.
6/25/96 5.20b14 Tim Mooney provided fixes to obey --includedir and similar
configure conventions.
6/25/96 5.20b13 A bug when installing Expect using new _installed targets.
6/24/96 5.20b12 Numerous complaints from Solaris users about shared libraries.
Unfortunately, no one is giving me configure-ready fixes so
(and Tk's configure seems to have bugs as well) so fixing
these is like throwing darts.
Stan Brown <stanb@netcom.com> noted noidle example broke when
fed "-".
Gordon Irlam <gordoni@cygnus.com> noted typo in install-sh.
David Sheinberg <sheinb@bcmvision.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu> noted no
args test for spawn -open/leaveopen.
Misc patches from Tim Mooney to pacify much of gcc -wall.
Kayvan Sylvan insists Linux stty reads from stdin so added
hardcoding to configure.in for that. In xkibitz, Linux stty
-raw didn't disable all post-processing. How odd that it is
not a problem in interact. In the meantime, added extra stty
to xkibitz to do what was missed.
5/30/96 5.20b11 Kayvan Sylvan <kayvan@sylvan.com> noted quoting bug in
autoexpect.
5/22/96 5.20.b10 Patches from Larry Virden in Makefile.in and exp_int.h
5/20/96 5.20.b9 Too many substitutions in configure caused sed failures on
DEC (limit 99) and HP (100). Commented out definitions
that weren't absolutely critical. Hopefully, this gets us
under the limit but can't be sure since there's no easy way
of knowing.
Numerous mods from Mark Diekhans to support clist-style ptys
on SCO OpenServer. (He says SVR4 ptys are broken on that
platform.)
Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@zen.void.oz.au> says that write() returns
0 inside of exact_write on SunOS. This is outside the SunOS
spec so of course we have no idea what's going on. So I added
code to try and recover from (or at least warn of) this.
Tom Tromey unified decls of errno to #includes.
5/13/96 5.20b8 Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu> pointed out
backwards stty test - this would have corrupted every platform!
He also pointed out that alpha-dec-osf3.2 (3.2c) complained
too many args to sed. Someone earlier said similarly about
HPUX 10, but I assumed it was the quotes in the weird stty
flag I was passing, so that "fix" wasn't. GNU sed has no
problem, but obviously this is not sufficient for many people.
5/10/96 5.20b7 Renamed/numbered versions so that it's easier for others to
track.
Upgraded to autoconf 2.10.
Matthias Kurz <mk@baerlap.north.de> noted Makefile problems
with final Tcl7.5.
Blair Zajac <blair@gps.caltech.edu> noted configure mishandled
stty defaults on HP and shared lib must be installed executable
on HP.
autoconf insists on adding -O to CFLAGS when using gcc. Ack!
3/23/96 5.20b1 Beta release 1 of Expect for Tcl 7.5.
Michael Hunter <mphunter@qnx.com> provided misc mods for QNX.
Various people reported problems with IRIX. Removing from the
stty list fixed the problem. Similar problem with Solaris.
Added explicit close to autoexpect. Added a mechanism for
enabling conservative mode after script is generated.
Hal Schechner <hal-j@netusa.net> pointed out passwd.cgi must
meet passwd's requirement that it not be run by an unrelated
user. Easy enough - just do an su first.
3/26/96 5.20a5 Alpha release 5 of Expect for Tcl 7.5b3.
Added example passwd.{html,cgi} to change a password.
Many fixes from Stephen Williams <steve@icarus.com>
and Jonathon Kamens for Makefile and configure.
3/22/96 5.20a4 Alpha release 4 of Expect for Tcl 7.5b3.
Added version number to lib directories (POTENTIAL
INCOMPATIBILITY).
Revised gethostbyaddr example - evidentally hadn't worked for
some time!
Jan Nijtmans <nijtmans@nici.kun.nl> provided pkgIndex.tcl.in.
Renamed Exp_Init to Expect_Init to support package cmd.
Provided #define so that Exp_Init will continue to work.
Revised exit handling so that it works if Expect is dynamically
loaded.
aclocal.m4 Patches from Tom Tromey.
3/15/96 5.20a3 Alpha release 3 of Expect for Tcl 7.5b3.
Edward Haletky <elh@astroarch.com> noted that Machten required
inclusion of types.h in exp_tty_in.h.
Added various patches from Rob Savoye. One incompatibility
is that the static lib now ends with the version number.
Added support for TCL_SHLIB_{LD_LIBS,VERSION} in Tcl b3.
Jonathan Karges <J.Karges@dkfz-heidelberg.de> found that clib
was timing out immediately on -1.
3/6/96 5.20a2 Alpha release 2 of Expect for Tcl 7.5b2.
Leland Joseph <leland@tec.tetd.bellcore.com> noted
expect-tests.exp exceeds the 14 character filename length.
Added config.{sub,guess} to support AC_CANONICAL_....
Rewrote much of aclocal, configure.in, and Makefile.in
to handle Tcl/Tk config.sh files and shared/dl support.
Simplified varargs/stdarg mess for Expect's C library.
Threw away closetcl junk. No longer required because
Tcl finally started doing close-on-exec.
Incorporated various fixes from Tom Tromey at Cygnus.
See ChangeLog for details.
Added require/provide support.
Rejiggered event handling to support new Tcl_File interface.
Removed libexpectk. Because event loop was moved into Tcl, it
is no longer necessary for it to be different than libexpect.
Removed all support for earlier versions of Tcl and Tk.
Numerous misc patches from Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>
most to support Tcl 7.5.
Arnold Robbins supplied yet another patch to fix earlier
problem noted by Hume Smith.
David Engel <david@ods.com> reported problem with Linux dumping
core. CenterLine, of course, immediately found the problem -
uninit'd lowercase buffer.
Peter Haggerty <haggerty@borg.lib.vt.edu> noted that his Next
died in cron. It seems that Next doesn't support O_NOCTTY
(even though the man pages says it does) and so during pty
testing, control terminal would get allocated and then kill
the process (by generating a HUP) when deallocated. Avoid
by ignoring HUP when doing pty testing on such machines.
1/3/96 5.19.0 Fixed bug that made expect report wrong string when using
a terminating anchor in a positive-length glob match,
reported by Graham L. Randall <grandall@nit.airtouch.com>.
Added rlogin-display to included examples. rlogin-display
automatically propagates your $DISPLAY when you rlogin.
Hume Smith <hclsmith@localhost.isisnet.com> noted problem
with day of the week calc at year end/start. Arnold Robbins
supplied fixes.
Jonathan Kamens provided fix to make sync byte reads
recover from EINTR.
Henry Spencer noted errant line of spaces in Makefile.
10/21/95 5.18.1 Began adding support for tcl7.5a1/tk4.1a1. (not finished!!)
- Make aclocal understand new Tcl/Tk directory layout
for finding tclInt.h and private libraries.
- Added support for Tcl_AsyncReady.
Paul Townsend <aab@aab.cc.purdue.edu> noted that distclean did
not remove some config cruft. Also recommended unsetting
M*FLAGS that cause make called from configure to fail.
Various fixes from Cygnus. See Changelog.
Deleted "-" before rm in loop in deinstall in Makefile as per
Doug Claar <dclaar@hprtnyc.ptp.hp.com>. Doug also found prob
involving recent STTY fix. Symptom was that pty wasn't
correctly inited in cgi scripts on HPs - and Cray pty support
blew up entirely.
Added exp_ prefix to tests so that they can be run with other
extensions.
Seth Ornstein <pp001465@pop3.interramp.com> noted bug in the
way rftp detected symlinks.
Upgraded to autoconf 2.4. This fixes a bug in AC_PROC_CPP
which blew up when CPP was defined in the environment. Noted
by John Pfuntner.
Jonathan Kamens noted that library didn't check return pipe()
return value.
Added vrfy example.
Przemek Klosowski <przemek@rrdjazz.nist.gov> Irix 6.0 fails
to use ptys that have been used by someone else. SGI admitted
this is a bug and the solution is to upgrade to 6.1.
Yoad Grinberg noted "expect -timeout" mistakenly ate next arg
as pattern.
8/24/95 5.18.0 Wayne Christopher noted that the way exp_eval_with_one_arg
modifies the original argv makes the ICEM Tcl compiler unhappy
so I rewrote it to avoid that.
Ian Zimmerman <itz@rahul.net> found that a braced arg list of
a single pattern beginning with a \n caused expect to reeval
for multiple args twice. I added a -nobrace flag that expect
and/interact can use internally to prevent this.
Florian La Roche <florian@jurix.jura.uni-sb.de> noted a few
glitches in the way -ltcl was searched for in aclocal.
Joachim Posegga <posegga@ira.uka.de> noted lack of Tcl internal
includes should be an error during configure.
8/10/95 5.17.8 Martin Wunderli <wunderli@baloo.limmat.net.ch> found missing
quote in config.
Danny Faught noted problems in Makefile when passing STTY defn
with quotes. Created another a STTY-less CPPFLAGS for cases
where additional reexpansion occurs.
Danny Faught noted bug in error handling for checking
permission problem with /tmp.
8/1/95 5.17.7 Todd Rimmer <trimmer@mantis.ssw.com> noted that HP 10 with
optional streams package has both PTYM and PTMX which conflict
in pty_termios.
Rainer Wilcke provides fixes: scripts not listed as dependency.
distclean target used Makefile after deleting, and many fixes
to man pages.
Saad Mufti <mufti@hobbit.pls.com> noted bug in how C library
handled polling (when handling multiple fds).
Jeff Bowyer noted more autoexpect bugs.
7/22/95 5.17.6 More features added to autoexpect (now version 1.3).
Sanjay <sanjay@clef.lcs.mit.edu> noted bug in TCLH config macro
which caused it to use 7.3 instead of 7.4.
Rodney Barnett <rlb@us.teltech.com> noted expectd.proto had a
few refs to interact_out where it should've had expect_out.
Terry Rhodes <tbr@88open.org> noted that Expect returned a 0
exit status upon syntax error unlike tclsh and wish.
Fred Obermann <fredo@conan.ids.net> noted that Unixware 2.01
native development tools don't permit configure to find memcpy
because memcpy is handled specially by the compiler and it
complains when it finds configure's default test with no args.
Changed to a hand-crafted test with args.
7/12/95 5.17.5 Jeff Bowyer <jbowyer@muni.cz> noted minor bugs in autoexpect.
Rob Saul <robs@sco.com> noted that configure failed on SCO OSR5
because trap requested by Cygnus (to allow config in bg) used
higher traps than SCO sh knows about.
Changed "can't happen" to "xmkmf is broken" when configure
fails to compile simple C-Tk program.
John H. Chauvin <jchauvin@netcom.com> noted exp_tty_current and
cooked raised multiple def errors on SGI 5.3 with native cc.
7/9/95 5.17.4 Wolfhardt Lotz <s11@blue.lrw.uni-bremen.de> noted Solaris
doesn't do case-insensitive man page lookups so I lowerized
the beginning of the .SH lines.
Henry Spencer noted unbackslashed quotes in the autoexpect
boilerplate.
7/3/95 5.17.3 Modified VARARGS decls to support new Tcl 7.4 definitions.
Fine-tuned aclocal so that it would prefer later versions.
Added autoexpect example and man page.
6/30/95 5.17.2 select-based dsleep() was returning an internal expect-style
return code instead of a Tcl-style.
6/30/95 5.17.1 Kannan Varadhan <kannan@isi.edu> noted aclocal didn't
look in right directories to find Tk.
6/30/95 5.17.0 Modified regexp interfaces to support Tcl 7.4b4.
Mods from Tony Isles <ittony@traf.com> for Sequent Dynix/ptx
V2.1.5 (which is really old).
Michael Schumacher <hightec@rz.uni-sb.de> noted that Solaris
2.4 header files require __EXTENSIONS__ for all sorts of
traditional but non-standard definitions.
Modified aclocal to support new Tcl/Tk library names.
George Forman <forman@cs.washington.edu> requested support in
C lib for fds that already exist. I added exp_spawnfd.
Fixed bug preventing signal rearming on Linux (using SV-style
signal handling).
Wayne Christopher <wayne@pmac.icemcfd.com> noted missing interp
in call to exp_error.
Added null support to interact's exact matching.
Bruce Jerrick noted INSTALL was being used rather than
INSTALL_PROGRAM/DATA.
Dennis Ferguson <dennis@mci.net> noted that on Solaris 2.4
close(pty) occasionally returns EINVAL.
Added tests so that if we can't get a pty, we can give the user
much more help with what to do about it.
Steven Byrnes noted that Solaris has replaced TIOCCONS with
SRIOCISREDIR interface.
Technically speaking, interact shouldn't do buffer-shuffling
but I've added as a fail-safe mechanism to catch people who
use preposterous patterns.
Alan Heckert <heckert@tiber.nist.gov> noted missing decl in
Convex pty support.
Fixed all expectk examples for Tk4.
Bryan S. So <so@cs.wisc.edu> noted that interact -o eof failed
if an unbuffered pattern was partially in progress.
Added -timeout flag to expect command to override timeout var.
John Pfuntner <pfuntner@VNET.IBM.COM> noted that OpenMVS did
not notice @ inside of Makefile SETUID macro as suppression
but instead treated it as part of the program name.
Jim Porter <James.W.Porter@att.com> noted that exp_free_i freed
the variable name even if not allocated.
Yet more mods to aclocal and various .in files from Rob Savoye.
4/21/95 5.16.3 Matija Grabnar <Matija.Grabnar@ijs.si> noted that sleep maxed
out after about 36 minutes. Turned out to be a poor assumption
in some interfacing code.
4/19/95 5.16.2 rbd <uport@netcom.com> noted tcl_RcFileName multiply defined
when compiling with Tk4.
4/16/95 5.16.1 Robert Nicholson <robert@steffi.dircon.co.uk> noted NextStep's
sys/wait.h is not POSIX-like so WNOHANG fails to get a defn.
Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafalov@socs.uts.edu.au> discovered
example on dislocate man page didn't work. I fixed it.
4/8/95 5.16.0 gcc 2.3.3 complains about internal errors so I figure: time to
upgrade. Switched to Cygnus 2.6-95q1. Works now but now
complains about wait status. I trashed all the gory wait
status configure code and adopted autoconf's suggestion about
refusing to use sys/wait.h if not POSIX.1 compatible. Nice!
Jeffrey C Honig <jch@nr-tech.cit.cornell.edu> requested a -gmt
flag for timestamp command.
Chuck Ocheret <chuck@gigadactyl.com> noted that expect -pty
fails. Problem is that Tcl's exec blindly closes all the fds
between 3 and its own highest fd. See comments in code.
Loris Caren <loris@caren.demon.co.uk> noted eof in fg bombs on
Linux. Turns out to be analogous to eof in bg problem fixed
in 5.14.0.
Upgraded to autoconf 2.3. Continued making changed to config
script to take advantage of autoconf 2 capabilities.
4/1/95 5.15.4 Steve Simmons noted .x remnant from earlier dir install proc.
3/31/95 5.15.3 Forgot to export TCLHDIR defn when configuring debugger.
3/29/95 5.15.2 Steve Simmons <scs@aisinc.com> noted Makefile multiple defined
distclean and it might be nice to provide aclocal.m4 even
though it isn't normally used.
cevans@resdev1.ppco.com added prompts to passmass for AIX.
3/27/95 5.15.1 Fixed tkterm script - inadvertently left tic debugging on.
Also add support for Ctrl-space and Ctrl-@ as requested by
Zbigniew Wieckowski <wieckows@cs.umn.edu>.
Larry Virden asked that configure also check for .so libs.
3/23/95 5.15.0 Everitt Beers <ebeers@scf.usc.edu> noted that Linux doesn't
support kill -STOP 0. Changed 0 to [pid].
zhengping (z.) you <you@bnr.ca> found bug where a bg expect did
not rearm a spawn id after a first bg expect (and another one)
to clear it.
Elliott Wolin <wolin@physics.wm.edu> noted that tkterm
complained if tic wasn't found. I'll have it override the
user misconfig in that case. Also noted that interact failed
on AIX. Evidentally, my new config tests for ISC found that
AIX looked just like it. Added additional test for tcsetattr
to distinguish them.
Rob Savoye asked for Dbg config.in to be distributed. Rob
supplied numerous other mods: install-sh replaced install.sh,
mkinstalldirs, testsuite mods, new aclocal.m4, support for
recursive make.
Fixed bugs in configuration of debugger.
Disabled configure's file-caching.
Kannan Varadhan <kannan@isi.edu> noted incorrect diag reporting
TCLHDIR in configure.
Marty Olevitch <marty@howdy.wustl.edu> noted that DEC Alpha
did not sleep correctly because configure didn't find sleep
and found poll (which is broken). Problem turned out to be a
bug in autoconf's AC_CHECK_FUNC. Got patch from Jim Meyering
<meyering@comco.com>
Fixed config probs for Edward Huie <huie@net.com> on Mac SE/30,
System 7.1, Tenon Intersystems' MachTen 2.1.1-G (BSD 4.3 on
Mach kernel) and MachTen X11R4 3.1.
Moved libraries forward in configure to allow for AC_CHECK_FUNC
to succeed when funcs are in other libraries.
Made configure test for Linux and unset CFLAGS=-g if so.
2/25/95 5.14.3 Larry Virden noted configure was missing brackets in raw shell
cmds evidentally due to m4 interpretation.
2/24/95 5.14.2 Larry Virden noted configure was not correctly rewriting from
--(exec-)prefix. Due to new autoconf. Also noted glob was
finding tclX directory.
Hal Peterson noted that because configure now actually attempts
a link before using a library, the code to check for -ltk would
have to worry about all the other utility libraries first.
2/23/95 5.14.1 Hal Peterson noted that configure.in checked incorrectly for
tcllib.
2/22/95 5.14.0 Jamal <root@lonestar.tlug.org> noted Linux has tic in a
different place than on my system - affected tkterm script.
Xiaokun Zhu <xiaokun@stats.gla.ac.uk> noted problem on DEC
Alpha OSF/1.3 evidentally due to backwards decl of index macro.
Greg McFarlane <gregm@nms.otc.com.au> noted that large args in
send cmd cannot be passed blindly to exp_error.
david d `zoo' zuhn <zoo@armadillo.com> requested modifying
configure so that it did not require Tcl/Tk to be built - only
configured. This means that it may not find installed
libraries. Hopefully, this won't cause anyone problems but its
not my preference.
Fixed error which caused spurious eof when changing patterns
in expect_bg.
Moved to autoconf-2.1 and m4-1.4. Rewrote a LOT of the config
file. Finally got my hands on an ISC box and fixed configure
for that.
Tony Booker <tb@sequent.com> provides mods for Sequent ptx 2
and 4.
Jeffrey Friedl <jfriedl@nff.ncl.omron.co.jp> provided fixes for
timezone handling in config and exp_strf.c.
David Schmitt <dschmitt@netcom.com> noted that library did
not detect eof on HP. I didn't think this was necessary for
read() but it evidentally is. I added the support for raw fds
although it is not obvious to me how to do it for FILEs.
James Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu> noted expect_after couldn't
worked in the exp_bg because I had accidentally written BEFORE
instead of AFTER when checking the cases. He also found that
the eof body could be trashed in an exp_bg.
Ousterhout apologized for the Tcl7.4 change I noted in 5.13.1
and said he will undo it.
Eric Frias <efrias@vt.edu> found library bombed after timeouts.
exp_match_end was not updated - which makes sense since there
was no match - however the following expect call assumed that
exp_match_end was meaningful in order to do its buffer
shuffling.
Jonathan Kamens supplied new configure test for REARM_SIG after
noting old could fail if limit prevented creation of core file.
He also noted REARM_SIG had accidentally been commented out
of cf file.
Vincent D. Skahan <vds7789@aw101.iasl.ca.boeing.com> noted that
Apollo's stty reads stdout and doesn't complain if its bogus.
Yoad Grinberg <grinberg@vnet.ibm.com> noted that SIGCHLD does
not work for forked processes, only spawned processes. Fixed
this and added counting to make sure none get lost.
Hal Peterson contributed mods for Unicos. He noted that
configure should be more careful adding libs to the link line.
On the Cray, non-existent libs generate warnings which are not
detected by configure but which annoy make.
Bela Gazdy <bela@euch3e.chem.emory.edu> noted /etc/resolv.conf
misspelled in kibitz.
Rainer Wilcke noted that "send -null/break" mishandled return
code, and these and send/expect_tty were not in man page.
Dvorak example was missing -- in send -.
1/12/95 5.13.2 Peter Wassenaar <peterw@stack.urc.tue.nl> noted that kibitz
didn't work on AIX. My fixcat script assumed that AIX's cat
was like HP's cat - buffered by default.
1/7/95 5.13.1 Marc Bouron <mbouron@lhr-sys.bru-ro.DHL.COM> noted I forgot to
add virterm to distribution.
Marc W. Mengel <mengel@dcdmwm.fnal.gov> noted that configure
must be run in the foreground due to the stty tests. Added
this to documentation.
Modified interpreter to account for the change in Tcl7.4 which
forces Tcl_RecordAndEval to call Tcl_GlobalEval instead of
Tcl_Eval.
Changed ptys to be initialized based on current tty setting
rather than original tty setting.
Stephen Melvin <melvin@zytek.fr> noted that set -e is the real
problem with ash (see 5.13). I bet "[" is returning a value
and triggering it. It appears that the script can live without
the set, so out it goes.
Braun Brelin <bbrelin@netcom.com> noted pipe allocs in spawn
could fail with meaningless error message.
12/15/94 5.13.0 Synchronize with appearance of "Exploring Expect". This
distribution corresponds to the book both in description of
Expect and in containing all the substantive examples.
Graham Mark <gam@lanl.gov> noted that his Cray (Unicos 7.0.6.1)
didn't recognize TCSETCTTY. Since this was in some Cray-
specific code, I guess Unicos must have changed some .h files.
I made it include either termios or termio. It, at least,
works on our Cray (Unicos 8.0.2.4).
Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> noted that FreeBSD 1.1.5.1
supplied union wait but waitpid doesn't use it! So I modified
configure to be smarter. He also noted that its /bin/sh is
really ash which blows up on install.sh. It appears that it
doesn't handle uninitialized parameters correctly. I'm not
going to fix this because having a broken /bin/sh is so awful
probably other things are breaking too. He did note that it
worked if he switched to bash or the native install, but that
blows the whole point of install.sh - that we have found too
much variation in native installs. Rather than try and figure
out everyone's variation, we'd like to simplify our life and
use this common, simple-to-understand sh script.
Added more example scripts: Adrian Mariano's virterm (like
expect_term but without relying on Tk), gethostbyaddr, and
expectd.proto for telnet daemon.
Matt DiMeo <mdimeo@brooktree.com> noted that expect_background
failed to detect eof on HP. I had forgotten to pass the mask.
Josef Sachs noted that expect_background put Tk's event handler
in an infinite loop if it was listening to a pipeline that was
killed. I had aborted the cleanup procedure if Tcl's close
reported an error. That was a mistake.
Rick Lyons <rick@razorback.brisnet.org.au> noted a bug. C lib
expect would turn a normal read into a poll if remtime reached
zero on the nose.
Added ResetResult to Exp_Init to clean up diags in Expectk.
Made GENFUNCs return -1 on error as per ParseArgv's convention.
11/13/94 5.12.0 Alon Albert noted that in clib, exp_match_end should be init'd
to exp_buffer before trying to match the pattern - if the
expect doesn't produce a match, exp_match_end is incorrect and
will be wrong for subsequent expects.
Steven Diamond noted that fg expect did not react to a change
in an indirect spawn id list if it was just waiting for I/O
(rather than looping in exp_continue).
Wait fix in previous version broke system() whose return value
is horribly overloaded.
11/10/94 5.11.0 Stephen Fitzpatrick <sfitzp@cs.qub.ac.uk> noted that NeXT wait
macros do not accept int wait status. Switched to using Tcl's
detection of wait status type.
Made log_file -leaveopen leave file id open until close like
spawn -leaveopen did.
Bruce Jerrick <bruce@cse.ogi.edu> noted public include dir
wasn't getting created.
Karl Vogel noted 1) Pyramid has index instead of strchr, strf.c
needs sys/time.h instead of time.h in strf.c, needs to call
timezone(), and stty reads stdout but usual stty test fails.
Made expect_out(spawn_id) always be written to assist people
who want to log different procs to different files. This is
no longer an efficiency problem because interact can do so
much more then it used to. Made full_buffer condition write
forgotten chars even when full_buffer isn't explicitly
specified.
Bert Robben <Bert.Robben@CS.kuleuven.ac.be> noted that the
debugger needs to know about the presence of stdlib.h. I was
hoping to avoid this because it's a pain getting configure to
call another configure.
Rainer Wilcke provide several improvements for xkibitz and man
page.
10/6/94 5.10.0 Moved example files around. Added password generation to
tkpasswd. Created standalone script to generate and set
passwords - good for all those adduser shell scripts.
Rick Cady <rickc@NSD.3Com.COM> found a bug when switching log
files.
Rainer Wilcke <wilcke@esrf.fr> noted that xkibitz died when
closing a connection. stdin was mistakenly being closed. He
also noted that killing xterms under HPUX 9 requires kill -9.
Enzo Michelangeli <enzo@airhk.air.org> noted that SCO 3.2.1
defined window size structure in ptem.h.
Josef Sachs <sachs@panix.com> found a bug when calling fg
expects repeatedly between bg expects. On the first fg expect,
it cached the fact that the filehandler was armed. The next
background expect disarmed it but failed to update the cache.
John P. Rouillard" <rouilj@dstar.iddis.com> provided configure
support for --with-{tcl,tk}{lib,include}.
Mike Figg <figg@pencom.com> noted that man page used old style
of continue command.
8/23/94 5.9.1 Adrian Mariano noted it would be useful to have exp_continue
not reset the timer. Added flag to support this.
Morris Gasser <gasser@ksr.com> noted that lowering match_max
didn't work (lib was broken too).
Keith Hanlan provided a fix for exp_exact.
Added more examples: mkpasswd, tkterm, term_expect.
Put close_tcl_files in sep file for easier non-Tcl use of clib.
8/21/94 5.9.0 Fixed window handling code - on AIX, termios does not define
TIOCGWINSZ. Instead, you have to include ioctl.h. Of course,
you have to avoid the trap of including both on OTHER systems
such as SunOS 4.1 where the include files conflict!
Dan MacDonald found that close in async routine caused sync
expect to blow up.
Missed deletion of last line of out macro in exp_inter.c
Simon Warfield <simonw@bwh.harvard.edu> noted bug in xkibitz
help message.
Fixed exp_background to use global scope instead of current.
Steve Diamond <sdd@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu> noted that -i "4 5"
only used spawn id 5.
Rob Nagler found yet another bug in log_file when called
incorrectly.
Expectk wasn't creating a window by default.
7/25/94 5.8.1 Made exp_interp external. Users should be able to set this
explicitly.
David Barnett <davidb@cats.ucsc.edu> found that Linux was not
getting a controlling terminal. The original test for doing
that was based on Stevens and tested in a very nonspecific way
for the presence of a Sun via CIBAUD. Replaced this with a
more specific test.
It seems Tcl 7.3 broke my -nostack hack. The top-level interp
translates unknown return codes to TCL_ERROR. Sigh. I wish
Ousterhout would stop all of those translations. If the user
wants them, they can do so themselves, but now they're forced.
Martin Buchhoz <buchhlz@vnet.ibm.com> suggested adding
XKIBITZ_XTERM_ARGS environment variable to xkibitz. He also
noted that stty rows/columns support doesn't seem to work on
AIX. I haven't yet looked into this.
Copied 2nd sync mechanism from Expect to C library.
Added exp_child_exec_prelude hook.
Jonathan Kamens noted that "spawn cat;close;wait" returned
-1 on AIX and 0 on Sun. This is "correct", however to
address this, I added -ignore to spawn and otherwise made
signals default. Also added extra information to return value
of wait if caused by signal.
Dan MacDonald <hfvstud@bcarh80a.bnr.ca> noted that exp_continue
didn't cause timeout to get reread.
Ting Tan <utan@cisco.com> noted that when using -b, expect
hangs if open brace and doesn't stop in case of error.
Oops, broke "log_file" with no args.
Removed -timestamp from documentation. Use "timestamp" command
instead.
Keith Hanlan noted C library didn't test already arrived data
before attempting to read more. He also suggested I avoid
forcing the user to do save/restores of per-fd globals.
6/24/94 5.8.0 Hubert Halkin <hhalkin@ucsd.edu> pointed out that interleaved
expect_bgs and spawns dump core. I had used the exp_f ptrs
as handles to TkCreateFileHandler but realloc shuffled them
around.
Rick Lyons <pclink@qus102.qld.tne.oz.au> provided misc. mods
for Pyramid.
Keith Hanlan <keithh@bnr.ca> noted that HP-UX C compiler causes
odd behavior in Expect when it is compiled with -O. -g works
fine.
Peter Gasche <zrspg01@compserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> pointed
out that Convex 10.2 fails to build. New version of Convex OS
added getpty(). Naturally, it differs from old one. Testing
is tricky because there is no header file for it. Even worse,
the algorithm in the Convex man page is incorrect - it allows
you to allocate ptys already in use! Unfortunately, the man
page is too vague to allow the reader to see that immediately.
In contrast to BSD stty, Convex, Mach, and NeXT stty don't
complain if redirected to null. I'll just have to hardwire the
test in configure.
Added -nowait flag to wait command.
Upon suggestions from David Vezie <dv@xnet.ssl.berkeley.edu>:
Added -noappend, -open, and -leaveopen to log_file command.
Added -leaveopen flag to spawn and exp_open.
Modified spawn to close -open immediately.
Modified exp_open to close spawn_id immediately.
Between Jeff Wright <wright@spock.cen.encompass.com>, Brad
Skrbec, Arup Mukherjee <arup+@cmu.edu>, and the anonymous
Mach support group at CMU, finally got hard answers about Mach.
It is no longer supported and there is no intention to provide
full POSIX support. Now, at least, I can fix the configure
script to understand this.
Added "unbuffer" example.
Dana Chee <dana@dino.bellcore.com> provided configure hooks
for finding -lnsl and -lsocket.
Henry Spencer <henry@zoo.toronto.edu> noted timestamp doc did
not jive with C defn. Fixed doc and added timezone support.
Steve Pynes <fb@steve@ucsd.edu> noted that exp_win.c needs
_IBCS2 (Intel Binary Compat Standard #2!?!) before it will
recognize winsize. He also noted #out was redefined in inter
code if using simple_event.
Fixed defn of "stty cooked" to retain echo setting.
Bennett Todd noted dislocate's pidfile_read was missing close.
He also noted useless bind in tkpasswd.
Marty Leisner noted that ^C causes xkibitz to exit ungracefully
when in interpreter.
Added yet another sync mechanism (see 5.6) to spawn so that
child cannot eof before parent has prepped the pty (only a
probably on HPs, of course). I had actually written most of
the code, but left it disabled because I hoped that the
problem simply wouldn't happen in practice. Alas, Jonathon
Kamens found a case where it does.
Jimmy Aitken <jimmy@pyra.co.uk> noted problem on Pyramid. My
original code only looked for /dev/tty##. On pyramid, ptys
look like /dev/pts/4. term wants the last two characters, but
on the Pyramid, the first of the last two characters can be a
/ in which case xterm wants a 0. I.e., suffix of /dev/pts/4
is "04". xterm fails completely with 3-digit ptys! I sent
a suggestion and patch to X Consortium for this and the pid
problem - xterm has no way of telling it to which pid to send
the SIGWINCH.
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@TFS.COM> noted that -lm would make
autoconf forget about other libs.
Ram Bhamidipaty noted I forgot to document sleep.
Removed disasterous performance with * at beginning of glob.
Mods from Rob Savoye. See ChangeLog.
Earnest Hua <eh@c-cube.com> noted expectk.man need wasn't
installed.
Bogus arguments to expectk were not reported correctly.
Modified clib to catch when user changes match_max between
expects on two different fds and then switches back.
Rewrote timestamp to get rid of 200 char limit.
Ram Bhamidipaty <ram@xor.epi.wisc.edu> noted NetBSD .9 stty
complained "stdout appears redirected, but stdin is the
control descriptor". It compares dev(stdout) to dev(stderr)
and assumes if they are different then user thinks stty
ioctls stdout. This is one case when that assumption is wrong.
Fixed fd 2 so it points new 2 and is reset to old 2 if an
error occurs. This forced me to remove any diagnostic output
from child (in getptyslave) since this now went back to the
proc as child output rather than original stderr, sigh.
Stephan Winokur <swinokur@pinky.trevose.sgi.com> noted that
IRIX 4.2 had problems with gcc. While diagnosing, I found
PTY_TYPE was used before set. Make doesn't mind (how odd)
but I changed it anyway.
Made send understand "-null". Deprecated "-0".
Made Expect read .expect.rc from DOTDIR if present.
3/30/94 5.7.0 Removed alpha status.
Added $(EVENT).o to library.
Finally deleted old shar file. Revised README.
3/22/94 5.6.3 Phil Moore <phil@signals.geol.scarolina.edu> noted termios.h
should not come from sys even if it exists. (SGI doesn't have
sys/termios.h.)
3/21/94 5.6.2 Paul Kinzelman <pkinz@cougar.tandem.com> noted that I forgot
to remove -update from documentation.
Fixed interact's -i so it understands indirect spawn ids.
3/21/94 5.6.1 expect_background randomly failed. I forgot to save Tk's
event mask so occasionally events were incorrectly classified
as eof.
Added -buffer to expectk and made "nobuffer" the default so
scripts are read in much faster.
3/15/94 5.6.0 Added cat_buffers marker to avoid "catu" option to scripts.
Got temporary use of an evaluation copy of TestCenter.
Promptly found several memory leaks. Oops.
Added a synchronization mechanism to spawn so that user cannot
send to pty before it is init'd. This also deals with the HP
trap more simply. Removed extra open added in 5.5.1. While
working on this, it occurred to me stty needs to temporarily
disable trap. Added exp_slave_control so that C programmers
can get to it portably.
Added "expect -ex" to documentation.
Fixed winsize bug on Solaris.
Added functions to allow user flexibility closing fds in child.
3/8/93 5.5.1 Integrated bug fixes from Arnold Robbins <arnold@skeeve.atl.
ga.us> for his own strftime code.
Rob Savoye passed back a patch from OSF to cast ptsname.
Added a test for cat. R.K.Lloyd noted HP failed pid test.
Turned out to be another bug related to pty-trapping. The test
of course, was doing something that a user would never do.
Hope this doesn't break other HPs. Pty trapping is becoming
less and less clear to me. Ioctls generated by slave look like
modem ioctls. Added an artificial open because different
versions of HP's stty execute differing numbers of ioctls.
In test script, changed each cat to cat -u.
2/17/93 5.5.0 Began a test suite based on Ousterhout's model: make test
Added passmass man page.
Added decl of exp_tty_original to pty_sgtty.c.
Added error_spawn_id
Alon Albert <al@mercury.co.il> provided a bug fix for new
buffer handling code in C library.
Fix fd leak related to spawn -open.
2/7/94 5.4.0 Some installation improvements from Rob Savoye and Owen Rees.
Bug in handling empty string match - crept in recently.
Finally fixed longstanding oddness: stty -raw reset echo.
Made spawn close all file descriptors. Added exp_open command
to get old effect.
1/26/94 5.3.5 Made rftp use /bin/ls to avoid -F from people's aliases.
Initialized auto_path.
Fixed exp_version so it fails if the major #s are not equal
(which is what the man page said).
1/18/94 5.3.4 Jim Meyering <meyering@idefix.comco.com> gave config fixes
of X handling on Irix-4.0.5 and suggested that tknewsbiff
observe DOTDIR.
1/18/94 5.3.3 Kevin Short <short@gdc.com> noted some remaining use of malloc
and free instead of ck versions.
Initialize tcl_interactive to 0 while processing -c flag to
avoid unreliable handling of unknown proc.
1/17/94 5.3.2 Jeffry Abramson <jra@hrcms.att.com> noted that "spawn -pty"
hung on an HP. Problem was trapping was enabled so as soon
as I tried to open the slave, Expect blocked waiting for ack!
1/14/94 5.3.1 Forgot to delete a bad call to strcat in exp_internal.
1/13/94 5.3.0 Added -info flag to log_file, log_user, exp_internal, and
strace, so you could get original args back out.
Wrote tknewsbiff script (and was extremely pleased).
Fixed rftp. I must have broke it when I changed to using Tcl's
new switch cmd. Also sped it up by replacing split/join
nonsense with a single regexp.
Danny Faught <faught@convex.com> noted that glob patterns
returned shortest matches. While fixing this, found that glob
patterns ending in $ were broken, too.
Massaged libraries and include files. The include file for
using Expect with Tcl or Tk is now expectcl.h. libexpect.a
now suffices for using Expect's funcs with C or Tcl.
Add all the features from Expect into C library including
null and full buffer matching. Added exp_buffer (_end) and
some other variables to support fd multiplexing better.
Made unmatched chars from previous expects remain for future
matches.
Chen <johnny@e0sun3.ccl.itri.org.tw> found bug in exp_pid when
-i had no arg.
Rewrote expect_bg, after, and before so they all handle args
the same. Interact and all the expect variables now handle
indirects. exp_bg now handles -brace flag.
Geoff Bullen <geoff@itx.nsg.com.au> noted that interact put
terminal into raw mode even if stdin was redirected.
Rob Savoye provided more configure mods to better find Tcl/Tk.
Fixed bug in wait that didn't close down "busied" fds.
Kazuro Furukawa <furukawa@apricot.kek.jp> provided a better
default for SHORT_BINDIR in the Makefile and noted that DEC
doesn't understand "test -x".
12/3/93 5.2.0 Recent fix was buggy and blew up when eof case still had data
in buffer.
11/23/93 5.1.4 At request of Rod Beckwith <rodb@slugo.corp.sgi.com> fix some
minor things to which SGI cc was sensitive.
Fixed bug in dvorak script where eof could occur in nested
interact, upsetting original interact.
Forgot to change -flush to -nobuffer in man page.
Added some more places to search for X11 for Jeff Moore
<jbm@internet.sbi.com> note.
Added yet more fixes and notes for NeXT for Brad Skrbec
<skrbec@motcid.rtsg.mot.com> who found that NeXT has POSIX
include files but NOT the functions that go with them. Sigh.
Needless to say, configure is thrown off by this.
11/14/93 5.1.3 John Pierce <jpierce@chem.UCSD.EDU> noted several declarations
that AIX's cc couldn't handle include a struct with same elt
name at two different levels. Also _IO is declared twice
in AIX include files but only checked once.
Fixed bad args in exp_spawnl call in chesslib examples. Can't
imagine how it ever worked before.
Richard Weidner <richard@cicero.jpl.nasa.gov> found a bug in
configure (test always treats a bare string as true!) that
caused NeXT to be declared as POSIX.
Fixed two bugs in Tcl_StringMatch2. One caused glob ranges to
succeed when they shouldn't. Another was how malformed ranges
are handled, and came right from Tcl. Reported to John.
Switched Expect library to use T_SM2 from Expect itself.
Blair Zajac <blair@olympia.gps.caltech.edu> noted expectk used
CLFLAGS instead of CFLAGS.
Forgot to fix mishandling of parens inside of alternation in
interact.
11/9/93 5.1.2 Added "null" keyword and remove_nulls command to allow matching
ASCII 0 in expect/interact.
Rob Nagler <nagler@olsen.ch> noted that expect_background
failed if pattern didn't consume all data. event handler
knows nothing about data already arrived but not processed.
Made Expectk understand --
11/8/93 5.1.1 Fixed yet another bug in setting expectk's argv0.
11/6/93 5.1.0 Provided support to work with Tcl 7.[0-1] and Tk 3.[3-4].
Pasi Kaara <ppk@atk.tpo.fi> found an off-by-one in the buffer
shuffling when buffers fill up during an expect.
Changed \\\$ to \\$ in patterns that search for literal $.
Added "spawn -pty" support for xterm -S.
Fixed yet another argv problem in Expectk. When run using
expectk explicitly, script name was left in argv.
Fixed system command's return value to match exec new style.
11/1/93 5.0.4 Mark Davies <mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz> noted that BSD4.4 sysconf
returns -1 (a bug). Rewrote to avoid requiring this info.
Switched from from explicit refs of sys_errlist to Tcl's
strerror.
As per Adrian Mariano <adrian@cam.cornell.edu>, added exp_sleep
command primarily to allow sleeping by sub-second intervals.
Also avoids exec overhead. Not yet documented.
Kartik Subbarao <subbarao@concorde.fc.hp.com> noted that on
HPUX 9, SC_OPEN_MAX should be ifdef'd on itself rather than
HAVE_SYSCONF.
Karl Vogel <vogelke@c-17igp.wpafb.af.mil> noted Pyramid
didn't like varargs included twice in exp_command.c.
Deleted expect_version variable (was never documented) and
deprecated expect_library to be exp_library for consistency.
10/16/93 5.0.3 Lou-Salkind@deshaw.com found interpreter() could stomp past end
of input array. Same problem in debugger.
Bud Bach noted init.tcl wasn't being sourced, and Makefile
broke if all scripts were commented out.
Added interesting highlights and bindings to tkpasswd.
Made Makefile look for -ltk if libtk.a doesn't exist.
Rick Sladkey pointed out that -re patterns to look for $ should
"\\\$".
R.K.Lloyd noted config doesn't see prototypes with K&R cpp.
10/8/93 5.0.2 Bud Bach noted tcl_interactive was not set.
10/8/93 5.0.1 R.K.Lloyd noted various problems, some related to being on an
HP when a lot of #ifdefs kicked in.
10/7/93 5.0.0 Added expect_background. In the Tk environment, this registers
actions to be called upon receipt of a pattern from a process.
Renamed "debug" as exp_internal" and made debugger available
as "debug" and "exp_debug".
Milan Gupta <mbg0@bunny.gte.com> noted that system() (at least
on his HP) hangs when SIGCLD is ignored.
<jason@vicor.com> noted that Tcl's exec command doesn't bother
to close fds, so force them with close on exec.
Renamed "continue -expect" as "exp_continue". "continue
-expect" will continue to work, just won't be documented. It's
just too dangerous when you start mixing extensions.
Renamed "return -tcl" as "inter_return". Had to do something
to avoid random return values from matching "-tcl". This
design was just wrong. Surprising that it never bit anyone.
Renamed "expect_version" as "exp_version" just to continue
this regularity.
Protected initial fd_new's with isatty so disconnect doesn't
lose redirected fds.
Allowed DFLT_STTY to be omitted entirely. Apollo doesn't need
it.
Modified fork to fail on failure instead of returning -1. This
made spawn failure match disconnect failure.
Dan Hyde <drh@citi.umich.edu> noted missing arg in exp_error.
Jerry Whelan <guru@stasi.bradley.edu> noted -buffer was botched
in man page. Hal Peterson noted that bug in man page caused
groff to choke.
wait now returns {pid, spawn_id, 0|-1, status (or error msg).
errorCode is now set if appropriate. wait -i -1 waits for any.
Propagated winsize to pty.
Documented "-open".
Quentin Stafford-Fraser <Fraser@europarc.xerox.com> noted that
interact -u was broken.
Fixed interact's default actions "return"/"interpreter" to be
writable. Removed ability to set default eof/timeout. Removed
dash from same.
Rewrote trap to use Tcl's async support.
Added -code switch and made interpreter understand "-nostack"
coming from error to use ^C to easily return to interpreter.
Introduced following incompatibilities:
- ONEXIT interface disappeared. Use "exit -onexit". (Thinking
of this as a signal bought nothing but complexity.)
Added "exit -noexit" to run all expect-related exit
handlers without exiting or destroying interp or ".".
Useful for when other apps have exit handlers.
- trap command takes missing action as a query. Use "" or
SIG_DFL to delete or reset a trap.
- SIGCLD gone. Now always called CHLD even if underlying
system only knows about CLD.
All sig handlers and exit handlers run at global level.
Removed setjmp/longjmp crap. Not needed since systems which
wait in read don't restart system calls.
Added support in expect for "-gl" and allowed longer forms to
match Tcl's switch command. Similarly for "-ex" in interact.
Rewrote arg parsing for send.
Added "stty" command to support stty of ttys other than
/dev/tty. Better for /dev/tty, too. This should fix
security complaint from BSD's Net2 stty.
<R.K.Lloyd@csc.liv.ac.uk> gave fixes for configure and noted
exp_main_tk was missing exp_conf.h.
Added "exp_timestamp" command. Fixed bug in interpreter cmd.
It wouldn't return anything with TCL_OK.
Renamed -flush to -nobuffer.
Make interact default to executing actions in raw mode.
Accept -reset to execute in cooked mode. Ignore -f.
Fixed examples. Fixed bug in "-o -timeout".
Deprecated getpid (due to Tcl's pid), added exp_pid.
Put "rm -f" inside catch. SunOS 4.1.3 and some version of AIX
complain despite the -f!
Added "send -break" for Dave Mielke.
Fixed argv handling of expectk to match expect for Steve Clark.
Switching to Tcl 7.0
8/21/93 4.7.7 Cygnus added support for OSF/1 style ptys.
Brian Bebeau <brian@cblph.att.com> found bug in PTC support,
HAVE__GETPTY, timestamp doc, and provides some mods for config
AT&T StarServer.
Detection of direct spawn ids failed on -1.
8/18/93 4.7.6 Removed zone and gmtoff from timestamp. Not ANSI.
Removed getpid confusion.
Once again, added "cat -u" into kibitz (this time for AIX 3.2).
8/18/93 4.7.5 De Clarke <de@lick.UCSC.EDU> hit error in exp_global.h because
tcl.h had not been included.
8/16/93 4.7.4 Richard Kasperowski <richk@icad.COM> found that Ultrix 4.1-2
failed to allocate controlling terminal. Ultrix's setsid is
evidentally buggy. Switched back to setpgrp - which fixed it.
Fixed type defn of exp_tty_original.
Dave Mielke found two bugs in interact: re-failure prevented
other patterns from matching a particular point in the stream,
and two or more -inputs didn't actually work. Also found bug
in HP trap handling - despite what docs say, other things
besides open/close have to be handled. Specifically, slave was
generating an ARGGET. Backed off on trying to wait immediately
for two OPENs to just waiting for one OPEN. Perhaps zero?
Also found deficiency in return -tcl - failed to return arg.
At Dave's request, made cmdfile by read in a single gulp rather
than line by line. Added -b (buffer) flag for old behavior.
Old behavior performs badly on very long procedures but is use-
ful for reading commands from pipes. Made "system stty" return
status of raw/echo.
Made log_user return previous value irrespective of args.
Fixed mishandling of parens inside of alternation noted by
Bud Bach <bachww@rtsg.mot.com>.
Added -timestamp, -iread, and -iwrite to interact and
expect.
Added -onexec flag to close to solve problem posed by
Bellave Jayaram <bjayaram@slee01.srl.ford.com>.
Added -0 to send. Removed capability of send to send multiple
strings.
Chip Rosenthal noted bug in releasing trap 0's action. Also
modified exit handler to allow recursive invocation. Instead
of complaining, it skips handlers that have already been
invoked and forces the process to exit.
Added new names for most command prefaced by "exp_".
Deprecated send_spawn.
Switched to Ousterhout's ckalloc and attitudes towards failure.
Started adding Tcl 7.0 support. getpid renamed to pid. Added
exp_pid to support things that Tcl 7 does with its pid.
6/12/93 4.7.3 fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com noted minor type problems. Rob Savoye
noted trap SIGINT overrode debugger handler. Default should
be reverse.
6/8/93 4.7.2 Added debugger to public release.
6/7/93 4.7.1 Ed Oskiewicz <eo@ansa.co.uk> noted prototype botch - exp_cook.
Owen Rees <rtor@ansa.co.uk> noted missing decl - tclRegexpError
6/6/93 4.7.0 Gert Bultman <bultman@dgw.rws.nl> exposed a bug in interact's
-update.
5/27/93 4.6.0 Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com> fixed a bug in send_log -
checking a master needlessly and indexing off the end of an
array.
Rob Savoye made change for detecting libpt.a, modified
autoconf for better handling of X, exec_prefix, and ranlib.
Kris Woeppel <krisw@cs.athabascau.ca> said SVR3 doesn't have
wait.h.
Made libexpect.a understand regexp. Reorganized code. It
now requires Tcl to be installed first, although it uses only
a few utility routines. Hopefully this isn't a problem for
anyone.
Zack Xu <zack@cs.wisc.edu> noted exp_main.h needed C++ support.
Pascal Meheut <pascal@cnam.cnam.fr> gave fix for skipping over
null bytes while interact is pattern matching.
Added "--" to expect, interact, and send.
Added support for associating multiple -i's with a single
pattern, and -i's with no pattern for use with spawn_id_any.
Made interact work with systems that lack select/poll.
Added code and #defines for debugger. Debugger itself is not
yet available.
4/19/93 4.5.2 Achim Flammenkamp <achim@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> noted that I
documented full_buffer as buffer_full.
Ted Stockwell <ted@sirius.aggregate.com> noted that wait arg
was missing an & in configure test.
Scott Hess noted that systems can have wait4 without waitpid.
Jonathan Kamens <jik@gza.com> noted/fixed some things that
weren't autoconf'd correctly: pid_t, RETSIGTYPE, malloc.
Gary Shea noted that a recent change to expectk made it not
default to interactive.
4/12/93 4.5.1 At request of Rusty Wilson <zrlw05@hou.amoco.com>, added
"-console" to spawn.
Pang Wai Man Raymond <wmpang@cuse1.se.cuhk.hk> reported that
passmass didn't grok DEC's passwd prompts for root.
4/7/93 4.5.0 Fixed bug in interact regexp preventing match of multichar
literals.
4/6/93 4.4.3 Bennett Todd <bet@sbi.com> noted missing example scripts
timed-read and time-run.
3/29/93 4.4.2 Bill Houle <Bill.House@SanDiego.NCR.COM reported fixes
for SVR4 pty support to compile.
Made string matcher understand *$. Documented tty_spawn_id.
Made command line -i override -f.
For Tuan Doan <tdoan@bnr.ca> on HP, make kibitz use domainname
as fallback and used whoami instead of env(USER).
Fixed bug in the generic pty code that could report out of ptys
because an earlier slave slowly deleted the lock file.
3/25/93 4.4.1 Stephen House <sdhouse@bnr.ca> reported exp_tk.c wouldn't
compile on HP. Fixed.
3/24/93 4.4.0 Added back SVR4-style pty allocation which got omitted in the
autoconfig process. Fixed bug in interact's -update handling.
Fixed bug in weather script that cut off long reports.
3/15/93 4.3.0 Cleaned up /tmp files used during pty locking.
Added command "parity" to enable parity stripping. Fixed
match_max to do -i correctly.
3/15/93 4.2.4 Fixed to work on new SGI which returns slave-close via excep
(select) or POLLERR (poll) rather than thru read(). Why do you
people do things like this?
3/12/93 4.2.3 Fixed to work on AIX (using /dev/ptc) and UTS (using getpty).
3/11/93 4.2.1-2 Fixed numerous bugs relating to HP ptys. It's amazing that for
their bewildering complexity, they couldn't support generation
of EOF to the master (or at least enable trapping of just
close), rather than forcing the code to know about opens, too.
3/8/93 4.2.0 Integrated Rob Savoye's autoconfig code.
Interact mishandled new -eof flag. Added -update.
Gary Shea <shea@cs.ukans.edu> noted that tkwait hung if
expect had been called. Rewrote most of tk_event.c and fixed
some other problems related to efficiency & multiple timeouts.
E Beck <beck@qtp.ufl.edu> suggested mods to more easily support
Extended Tcl.
Bill Mitchell <mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com> reported problems on
4.3+BSD. Added support for TIOCSCTTY.
Dana Burd <dana@wrs.com> noted that "exit" caused by ^C during
expect didn't work - just returning to expect. Fixed, and then
removed "feature" of ^C to abort a timeout. This feature
proved a lot less useful than I thought it would.
2/21/93 4.1.0 Bill Tierney <wtierney@leland.stanford.edu> noted that double
close dumped core. Rewrote fd_to_f and close/adjust functions.
Interactive interpreter() didn't properly wait in
get_next_event, so Tk stopped responding to events.
Wrote version of interpreter that shares expect's input buffers
but can't think of a use. Left as an ifdef SHARE_CMD_BUFFER.
1/26/93 4.0.1 Added eof check to xpstat. Removed incorrect and unnec.
#includes from exp_main_exp.c
Chip Rosenthal <chip@chinacat.unicom.com> found my refs to
tclRegexpError need externs on systems that don't use Tcl's
string.h. string.h should probably be changed not to refer to
tclInt.h.
Added FAQ about Expect's copyright status.
Mark Christopher <christo@bnr.ca> pointed out some really
stupid errors in the HP support for select.
12/16/92 4.0.0 Rewrote interact. Made re-entrant thru event-handler for Tk.
(Same for Expect.) Abstracted out common code so that
remainder is specific to select vs poll vs tk (although
"simple" was impossible to handle). Added timeouts, regexps
(at request of numerous people), ability to set up arbitrary
graphs of process flows, and some miscellaneous but useful
functionality. New flags are: -input, -output, -re, -echo,
-flush, -eof.
Added "-noecho" to spawn command.
Added getpid command. Something with this functionality should
be added to the Tcl core. When it is, this function will go
away.
Removed assumption of global "interp" handle. Rewrote init
and other routines for use as libraries. Added appropriate
glue to Makefile.
At request of Rob Savoye <rob@cygnus.com> added "send_log" and
disabled buffering on all output. The only affect unbuffered
output will cause users is if they pass large strings in
multiple args to send.
Ray Davis <rdavis@masschaos.de.convex.com> reported Convex
could not do job control from spawned procs. I added a symbol
DO_SETSID to force this.
Martin Leisner modified rftp to understand iftp. I added it
to the publicly donated scripts directory.
11/17/92 3.24.1 Martin Leisner suggested Makefile use $(MAKE) and support Tcl
as a Sun shared library.
Seth Perlman <seth@welchgate.welch.jhu.edu> suggested interact
support timeout. I've added this as "-timeout" in inter_select
but left undocumented while we experiment with interface.
Joe VanAndel <vanandel@ncar.ucar.edu> pointed out that su2
script still used old syntax. Fixed.
Konrad Haedener <haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch> fixed a bug in
POSIX tty handling on AIX. Surprisingly, we discovered AIX
worked just fine when pty_bsd is used and without -DPOSIX!
Doug (George Jetson) <pynq@midway.uchicago.edu> pointed out
that a spawn_id for /dev/tty would be really handy. I added
tty_spawn_id for this purpose.
11/4/92 3.24.0 After problem reported by James Ward <jew@sunquest.com> added
to man page describing delays required by hardware such as for
UART switching.
Recoded all \C sequences as \### in examples and man page in
anticipation of them going away in next version of Tcl.
Switched to printing errorInfo during errors instead of the
command and only the top-level error message. Since this
includes entire stack, this should be very helpful.
J. Cazander <cazander:pasichva via serigate@phcoms.seri.
philips.nl> reported that purify found a write beyond the end
of an input buffer. Lucked, it was just before a double-word
boundary, so it probably isn't a problem. I fixed it anyway.
10/9/92 3.23.1 Tor Lillqvist <tml@tik.vtt.fi> supplied support for HP 8.0.7 in
POSIX-mode, and a bugfix for POSIX tty mode switching
10/8/92 3.23.0 Larry Rogers <lrr@Princeton.EDU> reported that "weather" blew
up in spawn. I'll add a catch-all to the script to report
similar problems (out of ptys, processes, etc.)
Ting Leung <tleung@bnr.ca> notes that log() in human_write can
receive a 0 (domain error). Fixed unit_random to avoid that.
Tony Primavera <aprima@xox.ssc.af.mil> notes that the sample
archie script needs to understand mcgill's limit of 10 users.
Tor Lillqvist <tml@tik.vtt.fi> noted that a lesser-used pattern
("unknown...") is incorrect.
Grant Taylor <gat@pecan.cray.com> found a problem when forking
(using Expect's fork) multiple processes, each of which spawned
something. In the BSD pty support, I had used the pid to build
a temporary file for testing the pty before actual use. When
multiple processes tried to use the same tempfile, it blew up.
8/12/92 3.22.13 Corey Satten pointed out that -u on cat caused kibitz to slow
down on Ultrix. I see the same behavior on SunOS. I added an
option to fix it for systems that need it. Corey also noted
arg miscounting in kibitz, and pointed out that world-readable
fifos could be a security problem. He gave a fix for this and
also a fix to force ptys to be put into raw mode.
Terrence Brannon <tb06@pl122e.eecs.lehigh.edu> reported rftp
referenced the undefined variable 'transfer'. Turned out to be
a bug in the code to handle symbolic links.
7/20/92 3.22.12 Added O_NOCTTY (if defined) in pty_bsd.c to avoid gaining
control terminal while testing pty when running as daemon.
At request of Michael D. Riley <riley@mbeya.research.att.com>
added explanation to man page - how expect_after/before deal
with spawn_id.
Charles Hannum discovered the problem with AIX (see earlier)
was a missing "extern" in the errno declaration. Also, the
compiler was sensitive to a lack of access to the defn of
struct expect_special.
Dave Coombs gave me yet another fix for the weather server to
accomodate its ever continual change.
7/2/92 3.22.11 Yet more work. Discovered that SunOS and Ultrix really like
setpgrp(0,0) much better than setpgrp(0,getpid()) but the
manual doesn't describe well why this seems to work better.
(The old call worked inconsistently.)
6/30/92 3.22.10 Did more work on modifications to dissolve connection between
stdio and devtty. Eventually, I'd like to add a separate
spawn_id for devtty (expect_devtty?).
6/5/92 3.22.9 Hansel Wan <hhw0@gte.com> noted that $errorInfo was clobbered
by prompt1. To prevent this, I added a default definition
for prompt1 (and prompt2 while I was at it).
Unnati Amin <uxa@po.cwru.edu> noted that the example scripts
checked for $ in prompts which didn't work. This bug was
created when $ was turned into a "match end-of-input" char
in the transition from v2 to v3. Solution: backslash the $.
A few parts of code assumed spawn_id was always stdin, which
caused "send" to send to stdout, which meant succeeding
expect's hung, waiting forever. Fixed is_user macro.
This was a problem with scripts that redirected stdin or
somehow reused fd 0. Surprising that no one ever did that
before - also surprising that it didn't bother cron jobs.
6/2/92 3.22.8 Man pages fixes from Matt Crawford crawdad@fncent.fnal.gov.
5/12/92 3.22.7 Missing ; in Makefile, screwed up chmod.
Fixed bug that caused interact to think the modes had changed
when they hadn't.
5/11/92 3.22.6 Added regression paper to ftp archive - published in the 1992
USENIX San Antonio Proceedings.
Swapped setpgrp and fork in disconnect command for sysV88.
According to Dave Schmitt <daves@techmpc.csg.gss.mot.com>,
original code (right out of Stevens) starts the child with
closed stdio fds.
Fixed bug in interact that changed /dev/tty modes even if
interact was used to connect two completely different ttys.
Had never been a problem before, but today I wrote some code
that actually calls interact from cron! Also, copied the
experimental fix from 3.22.5 to inter_poll.
Jeremy Nussbaum <jeremy@world.std.com> says cat needs "-u" in
kibitz for his HP 8.0 system to work. I wonder why this has
never been a problem on earlier HP and other systems?
Forced Makefile to mark scripts executable.
4/12/92 3.22.5 Fixed bugs reported by Matt Ranney <mjr@uther.Calvin.EDU>
including a syntax error (!) in expect.c on ecases_inuse.
I didn't even compile this before pushing out? He also noted
some # were not in column 1.
I put in an experimental fix to interact (only in select
version currently) to fix when pattern matching from master
and user needs to continue typing in order to complete match.
4/3/92 3.22.4 Charles Hannum (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) pointed out that I
screwed up a comment in the brand new pty_aix3.c. He also gave
me a fix for an arg-less expect, which did a malloc(0). And
he said that AIX ptys return EOF in yet a new way - read()
returns -1 with errno == 0. Yuck.
3/29/92 3.22.3 Jay Schmidgall gave me yet another pty_aix3.c. He also gave
ifdefs for POSIX terminal support.
3/18/92 3.22.2 Jay Schmidgall <shmdgljd+@rchland.ibm.com> modified pty_sgi3.c
to make a pty interface for recent versions of AIX.
Steve Summit <scs@adam.mit.edu> noted that "trap 0" could
actually call signal(0...)
Martin Leisner <Martin_A._Leisner.Henr801C@xerox.com> noted
that rftp was broken. It seems I never handled symlinks. They
are interesting. You can't tell from the listing whether they
are files or directories, so you just have to blindly go ahead
and assume it's one or the other and see what happens!
3/11/92 3.22.1 In talking to Dave Schmitt ,daves@techmpc.csg.gss.mot.com>,
realized the documentation for wait had never been updated
from the way it used to work in v2 (returning any pid).
3/11/92 3.22.0 Another question from Ron, prompted me to find another bug.
interact -o wrongly manipulated the user buffer at one point.
3/10/92 3.21.0 Ron Young <ron@nevada.edu> found that spawn failed on a
DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 4.2. I had forgotten to test
that cmdfile was valid before comparing against stdin in fix
related to fflush in 3.20.0.
While I was on a DECstation, I noticed that it does not accept
setpgrp(...,0). Changed 2nd arg to getpid().
3/6/92 3.20.2 Stefan Farestam <farestam@orion.cerfacs.fr> provided a new
version of pty_sgi.c which uses _getpty. I renamed the old
one pty_sgi3.c
3/3/92 3.20.1 Brian Woodson requested I update the dates and version numbers.
3/1/92 3.20.0 Prompted by a question from Ken Mandelberg, added -raw to
noidle and kibitz script.
Fixed fflush(cmdfile) again, having been authoritatively told
by net wisdom that there is no way to portably fflush a shared
read-stream. (I take back my claim about a bug in HP's fclose!)
John Sellens gave me some more fixes for non-DEC MIPS OS.
2/22/92 3.19.1 John Sellens <jmsellen@watmath.waterloo.edu> gave me a bug
fix for NOWAITPID.
2/21/92 3.19.0 Found a bug in HPUX fclose!! It moves the I/O pointer in the
shared file table entry! This explains the symptoms I reported
earlier. Fortunately, it's easy to code around (by me - it is
no longer necessary to fudge the scripts).
Added some stuff to the man page to explain why expect behaves
the way it does in an emacs shell window and how to live with
it.
2/21/92 3.18.0 Worked on the HP port some more. The HP causes a real problem
by insisting SIGCLD be delivered in order for wait to return
a status. This royally complicated the code, partly because
of the special casing all over the place in the trap command,
the asynchronous delivery of SIGCLD and also because Tcl itself
is not prepared to have system calls be interrupted. Cleverly,
the HP also defines both CLD and CHLD which threw my macros
off at first. Thanks, but I don't this kind of help!
Anyway, the end result is that on the HP, SIGCLD is ignored.
The manual claims wait status will not be delivered but it
seems to be anyway. Good grief! (Even if it were ignored,
it would not be such a calamity, since wait is used mainly
to discard zombies on other systems.)
A remaining problem is that there appears to be some odd
interaction, perhaps with fork, such that the script is rolled
back at eof if a spawned process happens to exit at the same
time. The solution for now is to exit all scripts via exit
rather than letting exit be called implicitly. There must be
some real bug, but I'm unable to find anything after lots of
testing, line and Saber. At the moment, I'm highly suspicious
of the HP itself rather than expect.
Bob Proulx and Jeff Okamoto supplied me with patches for
inter_select.c. HP transmits some pty interactions via the
exception field in select.
Michael Grant gave me a mod to grok ~ in the logfile and
debug commands.
2/17/92 3.17.1 Brian Keves <keves@meaddata.com> pointed out that the man page
still referred to "expect_match" instead of "expect_out".
2/12/92 3.17.0 Eric Arnold <Eric.Arnold@corp.sun.com> ran into a problem
when running in the background. interact did ioctl(0...)s to
change the terminal mode, ignoring the -u flag.
Fixed a bug in kibitz which blew up when asking for a password
due to a spelling error. The drawbacks of interpreters...
2/4/92 3.16.3 Dongchul Lim <lim@doctor.chem.yale.edu> noted that scripts can
hang in the background. I had assumed isatty(0) was enough to
contrast bg/fg but it returns 1 if the script was started with
a & from the terminal. I added code to watch if any ioctl(0)s
were done. If so, than it is safe to do more, in particular
in the exit handler to reset the terminal modes.
1/28/92 3.16.2 Fixed a bug on SV systems causing errors when trying to do
further reads after a SIGCLD had already arrived on a spawn_id.
Peter Funk <pf@artcom0.north.de> gave mods for SCO XENIX 386.
1/24/92 3.16.1 Oops. Forgot to add pty_svr4.c to shar.
1/13/92 3.16.0 Karl Lehenbauer <karl@sugar.NeoSoft.Com> a tiny change for
getting a clean compile on SCO 3.2.2.
My getimeofday-avoidance code wasn't right, sigh. Kibitz
noticed. Fixed two other bugs in kibitz - password request
was for wrong user and it timed out but shouldn't have.
Note: seems to work fine with new version of Tcl: 6.2
1/13/92 3.15.1 Added a bit of code to avoid gettimeofday system calls when
timeout == -1. Fixed minor bugs in kibitz relating to cleaning
up and returning error messages.
Redid support for stdlib.h including making it default to fix
problem in Ultrix 4.2 reported by Oliver Kretzschmar <viskretz
@ikesg1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de>.
Ian Johnstone <ianj@sequent.com> said his system (DYNIX 3.2)
needed an additional include <ctype.h> in inter_select.
Dave Coombs <cme.nist.gov> added logic to test/weather to
accomodate a new feature in the weather server.
Hal Peterson fixed some SV code that I just added for handling
SIGCLD properly. He made the Cray-extra-child timeout in half
the normal timeout to allow distinguishing between eof and real
timeout. Finished rest of Jeff Okamoto's fixes for HPUX.
Wally Strzelec <packman@tamuts.tamu.edu> provided mods for
Amdahl which has its own pty-handling functions. Ifdef'd into
pty_usg.
12/30/91 3.15.0 Fixed a bug that struck when eof occurred when reading from
multiple processes simultaneously and no user-supplied eof
handler.
12/26/91 3.14.1 Ted Gibson <tgibson@logdis11.hq.aflc.af.mil> gave me some mods
for a 3B2 having to do with termio vs termios, etc.
12/24/91 3.14.0 Deprecated expect 2. Expect 3 is now the official version.
Parag Patel <parag@netcom.netcom.com> gave me some #includes
necessary for A/UX 2.
Brian Woodson noticed "send a b" generates incorrect debug
output.
Working with Jeff Okamoto to run expect on HP/UX 8.0, we fixed
SIGCLD catching (he says HPUX doesn't ignore them by default?),
obviating longjmp from stomping locals, fixed a bug in cmdWait
that would prevent the wait status from being collected in
rare situations.
12/17/91 3.13.1 James Davis suggested fixing Makefile to handle case where no
example scripts should be installed. I added similar logic
for script man pages.
Pete Siemsen fixed a bunch of things in the Makefile including
where to get expect when invoking fixline1. He suggested defs
for supporting install and multiple MAN targets.
12/12/91 3.13.0 Matthew Freedman <mattf@cac.washington.edu> noted mismatch
between lib man page (said "stty_init") and lib code (said
"exp_stty"). He also found a screwup in the library such that
the pty slave wasn't being set up correctly.
Added note to kibitz man page on how to kibitz with 3 or more.
12/12/91 3.12.0 "expect *" worked incorrectly if it was first expect after
spawn, due to buffer not being initialized.
Added a good example for "expect -continue" to man page.
Added an FAQ about a gcc problem that seems to be common.
12/11/91 3.11.2 James Davis noted I forgot to put kibitz.man in distribution.
I changed kibitz to read domain from resolv.conf instead of
calling domainname(1) for systems upon which NIS domainname
differs from Internet.
Pete Siemsen <siemsen@barnard.usc.edu> noted slight error in
libexpect man page.
12/10/91 3.11.1 A couple tiny mods to the Makefile courtesy of James B. Davis
and Michael Grant (guest worker from Sun, temporarily at
<mgrant@xdr.ncsl.nist.gov>. Both of them also noted a problem
caused by incorrect installation of gcc that caused expect to
say "ioctl(set): Invalid something or other" upon exit.
Fixed complaint about exit() while compiling without STDC.
12/9/91 3.11.0 beta!
Hal Peterson provided fixes for UNICOS 6.1 and 7.0 on both
CRAY-2 and CRAY Y-MP. He also fixed a problem in interact
where malloc(0) could've occurred.
Added support for allowing user to set interpreter prompt.
Added forgotten -d flag to match_max in rftp script.
Made kibitz understand user@host.
Expect's internal buffer-full-handling incorrectly copied
the latter buffer half beginning from the end of the buffer.
12/5/91 3.10.1 Massaged Makefile to allow for more flexibility in
installation, especially with regards to scripts. #! is now
reset.
Added "kibitz", a really cute script to let two people control
one program. Example users are for one person to help another
remotely, logging a conversation (run emacs or whatever inside
kibitz and your conversation can be logged, scrolled backwards,
etc., or of course, playing games together.
12/4/91 3.10.0 Tightened up arg checking for "wait" - it core dumped when it
should've said "syntax error".
Rick Cady <rickc@nsd.3com.com> noted minor inconsistency in man
page describing strace.
I fixed a bug that prevented "system stty -echo raw" from
working. The raw data was clobbering the -echo data.
12/3/91 3.9.0 Brian Woodson noted that "close -i ..." evoked a syntax error.
I had parsed the arguments incorrectly.
After the nth request, I finally set up pub/expect/scripts as
a directory for scripts.
12/2/91 3.8.0 Phil Sheperd <pshepher@loki.uni.edu.au> fixed a major bug in
exp_spawnv() preventing one side of the pty from being set up
correctly. Thus nothing worked! He also reported that his
system didn't have strdup, so I added an explicit defn of it.
James B. Davis fixed a couple nroff-bugs on the man page, and
said someone already gave him a dump script (see below).
Richard (R.C.) Vieregge <richv@bnr.ca> found a $ was missing
from test/ftp.exp.
11/22/91 3.7.2 James B. Davis <james@solbourne.com> straightened out a couple
things in the Makefile and asked if anyone had written a script
for dump.
Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc25.corp.hp.com> had a couple changes
for HPUX 7 and 8 compat, involving termio stuff.
Prompted by Andy Norman, added note to man page describing how
to disable all argv processing while using #!.
Converted passmass and rftp over to new version.
11/15/91 3.7.1 Brian Woodson asked me about the Tcl_WaitPids "got unknown
process" panic. This is a Tcl bug that John has promised
to fix. I'll document how to avoid it in the man page.
Incidentally, I'm going under the knife tomorrow for three
torn cartilage in my wrist. The doctors say it may be a couple
days to couple months. Until I get back, hang in there.
11/13/91 3.7.0 Yet another bug discovered (and fixed). "expect eof" was
failing to remember the buffer, and expect_out(buffer) was
empty upon return.
Brian Woodson noted I forgot to document the -i flag of close.
11/12/91 3.6.0 Sean Cunningham <sean@moorenet.com> reported that he couldn't
open /dev/tty from 'at'. 'spawn' was incorrectly not executing
code to claim it was a controlling tty. BSD only.
11/11/91 3.5.1 Brian Woodson notes that version 2 and 3 treat the following
differently.
proc p {} {spawn s}; expect
In v3, spawn_id is locallized by the proc, and thrown away when
p returns. Unfortunately, in v2 due to some sloppy coding on
my part, spawn always affected the global value of spawn_id.
This differed from the handling of other variables, and in v3,
this unusual behavior had to go, because the multiprocess
handling and the large number of variables implicitly set
(especially by the expect command) demanded that I be more
systematic about how this was done.
Since I never depended on this behavior, I never documented it
as being something you should rely upon. Alas. To fix it, add
the line
global spawn_id
to the beginning of any proc that calls spawn and needs the
value of spawn_id implicitly defined outside of the proc.
11/6/91 3.5.0 Drew Whitehouse <Drew.Whitehouse@anu.edu.au> hit a bad pointer.
I forgot an initialization in expect.c which caused problems
when an EOF occurred which had no eof pattern.
11/2/91 3.4.0 Added FAQ from various questions people have sent me and my
replies. Made CONVERTING file on converting from 2 to 3.
Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu> found a missing
declaration for exp_tty_original in bye() of main.c. How come
the Sun C compiler doesn't complain about this!?!!?
Nelson also reported that SunOS 4.0.3 had a problem including
varargs. It turned out that old varargs had check for
reinclusion, and tclInt.h also includes it. So I added an
#ifdef va_dcl and put my inclusion after tclInt.h.
10/31/91 3.3.0 Converted most of the examples. Three more to go.
Worked on man page some more.
Modified expect so that if timeout > 0, and nothing in the
buffer matched, it will force a read, no matter how long the
preceeding code took. This may be hard to understand, but is
the intuitive behavior that I always desired.
10/30/91 3.2.0 Fixed bug in eof handling. Converted some more of the
examples, and added to Makefile.
10/29/91 3.1.0 Fixed slight bugs in tty mode switching, pty initialization
(via stty).
Fixed expect library. Fixed compatibility code for non-BSD
systems. As usual, I could only test it so far, not having
all these systems at my disposal. I don't expect major
problems though, since the basic functions I depend on haven't
changed.
Completely rewrote handling of continue, return, etc in
expect, interact, interpreter. It's actually systematic now.
Checked with John O. about some code to bounce wild return
codes, which he said was a mistake and would remove, so now I
can pass my own return codes different from Tcl's.
To get | to return -> TCL_RETURN TCL_OK (no return)
V
expect return default continue -expect
interact return -tcl return default
interpreter return -tcl return default
What this table says is, to get "interpreter" (for example) to
return TCL_RETURN to its caller, you must say "return -tcl",
because "return" makes it return TCL_OK.
The "argumented" versions are considered to be the uncommon
form. In particular, I'd be surprised if anyone ever uses
the -tcl argument, but it's there for completeness and
consistency now.
Put together a FAQ. Needs more work, but hopefully worthwhile
as is.
Computing Systems with Expect article appeared a couple days
ago. How ironic that it describes the old version of Expect.
Nonetheless, it looks ok.
10/25/91 3.0.0 alpha!
First release of Tcl-6.0-ready code.
It might fly for a couple seconds.
Here is a quick list of changes. Besides Tcl incompatibilities, Expect
incompatibilities are flagged below as:
** major - scripts definitely won't run if they depend on this
* minor - scripts probably will run but there is some subtle
change that should be examined).
** Select renamed 'ready' and undocumented. Seems pointless now.
Added support to expect command for waiting on patterns from
different processes. The old version implemented this via
'select' but but it is much simpler via expect. Added -i to
a number of commands to signify a spawn_id which overrides
the variable.
Added any_spawn_id to match any spawn_id.
An explicit null pattern, forces a spawn_id to be considered
when all it can possibly match are any_spawn_id patterns.
* output is no longer flushed to expect_match upon timeout.
May be multiple buffers now, so it doesn't make sense to
flush just one.) -n was added to disable transfers from input
buffer to expect_match var. I suspect it will only be used
for experimentation.
Added expect -re for regular expressions. Added expect_out
array to retain indices and strings of partial matches for
** for both glob and re. expect_match has been renamed
expect_out(buffer).
A la Tcl, added -nocase for both types of patterns. (Oddly,
Tcl's case only does it for regexps.)
By popular demand, unanchored glob patterns. Old patterns
will continue to work, since earlier interpretation was much
stricter. Unfortunately, unanchored matches make certain user
errors easier. For instance, people will send answers before
seeing all of the question. Typically, output can 'look'
ugly, as answers land in the middle of other things.
To anchor patterns, use ^ in beginning and/or $ at end.
Added expect_out(spawn_id) to report which spawn_id was read.
Made expect and variants understand all args as one arg.
Added 'default' pattern.
Added continue_expect command.
Added expect_before, expect_after commands which take same
args as expect, but continue to stay in effect for all expects.
** Added match_max command, deleted it as a variable. The old
way was too coarse for use over multiple spawn_ids. With no
arg, returns current max. Takes -i flag and -d for default.
Added globbing to spawn command.
Added optional -i spawn_id to wait.
Added optional -i to send (and all its variants).
Renamed trace to 'strace' since it conflicts with Tcl's new
trace command. Since 'trace' traces variables, I figured
'strace' wasn't too bad (for "statement trace"). I felt
obliged to make it short and not as obliged to make it as
meaningful since it will probably invariably be typed by hand.
Made timeout == -1 mean infinity.
Made interact do pattern matching in both directions via
use of -o flag.
Added -F flag for convenience. If -f or -F used, interact
can no longer be overrun. In particular, if more characters
arrive then match a pattern, remaining characters will be
buffered rather than thrown away (old behavior).
Patterns may now be substrings of one another.
Made interact optionally take all args as one.
Default action is now 'interpreter' (see below).
interpreter now forces cooked mode, and echos results
so you don't have to constantly say "send_user [...]\n"
* Interact reads characters that have been buffered but not
matched by expect. And vice versa. Does anyone care?
(My rogue script did.)
From discussion with John Conti, I decided to make
'interpreter' a separate command to start up interactive
command processor. Changed default action in interact to this.
Added eval depth and event id to prompt to interpreter.
Added expect_library which contains path for commonly
sourced expect scripts. Automatically source expect.rc
out of expect_library unless -N given. Automatically source
~/.expect.rc unless -n given.
Added expect_version command to print and/or verify script
is compatible with running expect. Tcl version is also tested.
Felt it was worth making this a command because it's such a
pain to tear apart version strings.
Tcl's close and exit are both subsumed by expect's commands
of the same name.
Rewrote mode switching code so that "system stty" is handled
specially. This allows interact and interpret to get the modes
they want, without burning the user. It is now much easier
to leave expect in raw mode all the time, but the choice is
up to the user.
Added vgrindefs, courtesy of Brian Fitzgerald.
9/23/91 Tcl 6.0 released. This new Tcl has some incompatibilities
with the old Tcl, so as long as everyone is changing their
scripts already, I'm taking the opportunity to make some
incompatible changes to Expect that I've wanted to do for a
long time.
9/11/91 2.67 Ed Klein <eklein@syrinx.umd.edu> added support for SVR4 in the
form of pty_svr4.c and mods to command.c.
Added explanation to man page of how to create unreadable but
executable scripts. (No, chmod 111 doesn't work.)
Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.COM> pointed out to me that there
is a potential problem with the trap command:
"There is no control over when the signal will cause Tcl_Eval
to be executed. There is a chance that code in the Tcl library
will be executing when the signal comes in and the interpreter
data structure will be in an inconsistent state. This could
cause all sorts of nasty things to happen. In our Extended Tcl
(4.0) we added signal handling. but the way we implemented it
was to have the signal handler set a global flag. We modified
Tcl_Eval to check the flag after it finishs executing each
command. If the signal came in, Tcl_Eval then returns an error
such as: "SIGINT signal received". Signals may then be caught
with the catch command and processed."
9/10/91 2.66 Don Jackson <Don.Jackson@Eng.Sun.COM> found a syntax error in
the usage error message of the example ftp-rfc script.
Marty Olevitch <marty%cosray@wuphys.wustl.edu> provided mods to
support MORE/bsd. Namely, added #include types.h to expect.c
and extern int errno to a number of files.
Scott Hess <scott@nic.gac.edu> noted a potential problem in
interact. Since interact only checks patterns at beginning
of reads, user can conceivably type fast enough so that
patterns are typed in the middle of a read. In reality this
doesn't happen, but Scott was driving one expect with another
expect and in this way provoked the behavior.
The solution is to read chars one at a time, either by
read(,,1) or buffering in a stdio-like way, but I'm not going
to do that because the code should really be rewritten entirely
and it just isn't worth it, since it is so easy to get around
at the user level.
Steve Legowik found that spawn-disconnect sequences fail. The
pty testing I added in version 2.55 causes expect to regain the
slave as a controlling tty, which generated SIGHUPs. If anyone
knows a clean way to avoid regain controlling ttys, let me
know. For now, I just set SIGHUP to SIG_IGN in the disconnect
command.
8/14/91 2.65 Old passmass script changed root password. I renamed it to
passmass.old, and made a new one which works for any account.
It also supports yppasswd, telnet/rlogin, different names for
accounts on different machines. Handles VMS machines, too.
Added Computing Systems paper to expect distribution and moved
all expect-related things to separate expect directory in our
ftp directory.
8/5/91 2.64 Achille Petrilli <achille@miss.cern.ch> found that on an SGI,
the expect command ocassionally returned "no more processes".
He traced the problem back to O_NDELAY in the open, which was
taken as-is from the man page, by someone else who's code I
didn't look at too closely at the time. The result works now.
Oddly I thought I fixed this error myself when the SGI support
was first installed, but I cannot find it. I evidentally
screwed up.
7/31/91 2.63 Steve Legowik <legowik@cme.nist.gov> wanted to implement
callback by having a modem dial out and NOT go away, but
interact in the reverse direction. I added "interact -u" to
support the idea of changing the user from the default stdio
to a second spawned process. The result is that we can now
write a modem callback program that doesn't depend on the cute
trick of having getty recognize DTR which only worked when the
modem was directly connected to the computer. In Steve's case,
there were several network switches in the way.
Added "overlay" function which is similar to plain "exec" in
shell. (Too bad Tcl took the name already.)
Added robohunt scripts to the test directory. I wrote these
back in January, '91 and forgot about them til now. But I
suppose they are illustrative (at the very least of how to
generate truly random numbers). Ha.
7/20/91 2.62 Carl Witty <cwitty@jessica.stanford.edu> pointed out my fdset
implementation (for systems that don't have it) wasted some
space. I had commented it correctly, however, making the
incorrect code obvious (except to me).
Robert Howland <howland@rahjr.ame.nd.edu> pointed out that
expect complained about not running from a real terminal under
cron. Oops! So I added a test to skip saving/restoring
terminal modes when fd 0 is not a tty, since this is obviously
pointless.
7/19/91 2.61 Oops. Forgot to include getline and getline.exp examples even
though they have been documented!
7/17/91 2.60 UMich changed interface to weather system necessitating change
to weather script.
7/9/91 2.59 Didn't correctly comment things right in Makefile. Fixed.
Changed 'close' in gethostbyaddr example to 'catch close'.
6/22/91 2.58 Made new file (pty_sgi.c) for supporting Silicon Graphics ptys.
Silicon Graphics select fails to see eof immediately but poll
works ok. Unfortunately, there was an error in inter_poll
(bad_io was uninitialized). Silicon Graphics works now.
Andy Norman <ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com> notes that linking expect
with the BSD compatibility library under HP-UX, libc.a must
be loaded before libBSD.a. Modified Makefile to reflect this.
He notes that there is a problem with expect not reading an EOF
from the current process. This should go away with HP-UX 8.0
when select has been enhanced to flag exceptions in the readfds
argument. Probably inter_poll would work.
Edward Haines <haines@bbn.com> notes that close returns EPERM
("Not owner") on his Sun 4.0.3. This is rather startling!
(That's what I get for checking the return value of close!)
He said it is possible that they have modified things (viz.
DDN X.25 is loaded), but it still sounds incredible. For now,
I told him to either "catch" all closes or to remove the check
in the source code.
Added example scripts: ftp-rfc retrieves an RFC from uunet
via ftp. archie mails back a listing from the archie server.
Add the rest of Hal Peterson's changes for Cray support, 1)
fixing a problem where spawned processes flushed unread I/O
upon process exit, and 2) creating processes with the correct
uid. See his comments in command.c for more info.
6/6/91 2.57 (On Cray) made signal handler declarations right. Added
missing #endif. Added includes to pty_unicos.c. Fixed bug
in two bugs in CmdSend, one involving send_stderr, the other
send_user. All of these are from Hal Peterson.
Added gethostbyaddr as example script. Given an internet
address, it returns the domain name. By querying neighboring
hosts if the name server fails, a much higher probability of
returning the name is obtained.
5/30/91 2.56 Mispelled "match_max" as "max_match" in rftp script. This
caused files after the 2000 byte mark (per directory) to be
skipped.
5/21/91 2.55 Revisited BSD pty code to reject ptys that have either slave or
master side already open. This fixes problems rare problems
such as expect not being able to see EOFs from the child proc.
(because another process still has the pty slave side open).
USG and Cray pty code could probably use this code, too.
Fixed bug in expect library (lib_exp.c) which caused output to
be copied to stderr instead of logfile when logfile_all was
set. Per Sreedhar Muppala <muppalla@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>.
5/16/91 2.54 Fixed weather script to accomodate occasional Weather Watch
that would cause an unexpected initial question to pop up.
5/15/91 2.53 Added comment to BUG section of man page describing pty
misbehavior with non-interactive programs (search for "553061"
below), as per Hal Peterson <hrp@cray.com>.
Removed note from README about asking Ousterhout for SV TCL
at his request.
5/11/91 2.52 Fixed a syntax error that Bruce Larson <ires@kaspar.ires.com>
found in inter_poll.c
4/23/91 Computing Systems accepted paper on Expect for issue 4.2.
4/18/91 2.51 Added some example scripts:
weather - retrieves weather forecasts from National Weather
Service via University of Michigan server.
rftp - ftp a directory hierarchy (i.e., recursively).
4/18/91 2.50 Changed timeout to apply to total time in expect rather than
per read(). Original behavior hung forever when my modem test
script started listening to a modem than spit out 1 spurious
character every 10 seconds (very consistently).
Hal Peterson <hrp@pecan.cray.com> noted that exp_spawnv's args
didn't match documentation. Fixed in favor of documentation.
Several other funcs don't match header file (but typechecking
is avoided during compilation), because it was too hard for me
to make the header file ANSI compliant and support varargs
(which is undeniably more portable than stdargs at this point).
Fixed prototype declarations (again) in expect.h for C++ and
Standard C. Verified with GNU, G++ and Sun C (proto-less).
Added exp_disconnect to library. Moved alarm calls closer
to read() to tighten windows.
4/11/91 2.49 Changed passmass script to use timeout of 1000000 instead of
10000000000 after discovering that Ultrix sleep(3) doesn't
sleep at all for large values!
Added support for systems without dup2 (SVR2) per
<elston@edwards-tems.af.mil>.
Added test/Makefile to shar as per Chris Pribe
<cpribe@park.bu.edu>.
4/4/91 2.48 Fixed possible problem with poll in inter_poll.c for systems
that check for a valid address even though no members are used.
3/27/91 2.47 Added support for Cray Unicos 6.0, which of course is different
from Unicos 5.1 (which was different from everything else)!
This and other minor bugs fixed courtesy of Pete Termaat.
3/19/91 2.46 Removed a "feature" which caused patterns with no whitespace
not to be run through SplitList. While not documented not to
do so, this was mystifying even to me when I saw it. For
William Waite. The result actually simplified the internal
handling of multiple patterns, removing some excessively
complex logic that I thought would be helpful for speed, but
that in retrospect, was not that important.
3/16/91 2.45 Added my own definition of FD_SET, fd_set, etc, test for
SIGABRT, and support different types of signal arg func
definitions to support SunOS 3.5 as requested by William Waite
<waite@scotty.colorado.edu>.
3/14/91 2.44 Removed redundant def'n of pty_stty in pty_usg.c, redef of
sprintf and added signal.h to command.c to make compiles
cleaner on SV3 and HPUX machines. All compliments of Mike
Gourlay.
3/10/91 2.43 Added -s (for slow) and -h (for human) flags to send. This
had been requested by several people including Frank Terhaar-
Yonkers (who actually wrote and tested a "send_slow" command),
and Steve Simmons who suggested the "human" option (over a year
ago), and Brian Woodson (brianw@swqa-sun.ESD.3com.com), who
requested both! Thanks to NIST statistician, Keith Eberhardt,
who taught me about the Weibull Distribution.
According to Jim Thomas <jthomas@nmsu.edu>, 3b2 requires
defines for R_OK and W_OK. Added to pty_usg.c.
Added support for "-" as file name on command line to mean
stdin as requested by Steve Clark <clark@cme.nist.gov>.
Wrote passmass (change root password on a set of machines) as
requested by Ken Manheimer <klm@cme.nist.gov>. Added to test
directory.
2/21/91 2.42 Removed reinstallation of signal 0 in signal handler.
Added hook for setting initial pty parameters when started in
the background. Should've done this a long time ago, but I
was never really happy with my solution and had hoped I would
think of a nicer method. I only hope this is clean enough.
2/10/91 2.41 Added buffer_full keyword to solve Brian Fitzgerald's problem.
It disables "forgetfullness" so that when expect's internal
buffer hits match_max, whatever it has returns at that point.
Didn't add this to the library version, because I want to think
for awhile about the cleanest way to do it.
2/4/91 2.40 Per Brian Fitzgerald (fitz@mml0.meche.rpi.edu), fixed error in
interact example on man page which incorrectly implied that
"kill" was built-in.
Added fork/disconnect functions. This solved the problem of
Jerry Friesen (jafries@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov) who wanted to run
an expect script that asks for a password and then goes to
sleep for awhile before waking up to run in the background (to
run a program using Kerberos).
1/30/91 2.39 Per Jim Johnson (jaj@mlb.semi.harris.com), added declaration
and documentation for exp_pid in libexpect.
1/10/91 2.38 More mods from Frank Terhaar-Yonkers. Also, some requests
from Pete TerMaat (pete@willow.cray.com) for features:
1) a single-step facility. Yeah, that would be nice. No
ideas on how to do this easily.
2) Generate scripts automatically after watching a session.
This is hard. Read more about this in the FAQ.
1/10/91 2.37 Added support for Cray Unicos 5.1, all courtesy of Frank
Terhaar-Yonkers (fty@sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov). Most of it had to
do with pty support.
1/8/91 2.36 Modified expect.h to support C++ and ANSI prototypes. Added
appropriate example in test directory based on chesslib.c.
1/7/91 2.35 At the request of Jan Norden (jano@imdpy1.im.se) added
NO_MEMCPY and NO_STRING_H defines for Pyramid.
1/3/91 2.34 Added a check to protect against a longjmp occurring between
i_read and alarm(0). Didn't think this would be a problem but
evidentally a function return modifies the stack, so it cannot
be returned to again. Drat! This appeared in the robohunt
script I wrote which plays hunt automatically and uses 1
second timeouts.
12/19/90 2.33 Add signal to sighandler, to reinstall signal for those systems
that need it.
12/12/90 2.32 Removed test for args to expect. I only recently realized that
no args still allows a valid way to check for timeout and eof!
12/6/90 2.30-1 Mike Gourlay (mike@penguin.gatech.edu) found and fixed quite a
few SV-related problems that I had introduced since Clem's
fixes. We eventually got it to run on his HPUX machine, a
mixed breed of BSD/USG stuff. But spawning a shell worked but
always produced a complaint about "no access to tty" which we
were never able to get rid of, and he had a problem with
exp_fexpect (but not exp_expect), although it still isn't clear
if that was expect's fault. He said he would speak to some HP
engineers about what he found.
12/5/90 2.29 Fixed a malloc off-by-one bug in new C library. After
contemplation, revised interfaces. Decided that rather than
following the original 'expect' style, it should be more like
what a C programmer is used to, so I made the file descriptors
be parameters to exp_expect rather than globals, added an
exp_popen which is a popen equivalent, and added exp_fexpect
versions which are stream equivalents.
Am not happy with exp_fexpect. It is much less efficient than
exp_expect, because there is no way to (portably) get fread()
to return the way read() does, with less then the number of
characters you supplied a buffer for. Instead, I have to call
fgetc for every char. Ugh.
Add a couple new examples, including lpunlock, time.exp,
chesslib.c (using file descriptors) and chesslib2.c (which uses
stream pointers).
12/3/90 2.28 Created C library version of expect.
11/29/90 2.27 Fixed bug in interact - when no string actions were defined,
the mapping table length wasn't set at all.
Made interact call printify when debugging so that crlf and
other nonprintables are visible. Fixed bug in printify which
interpreted some characters wrong due to parity.
Added some more examples to the distribution (lpunlock, dvorak,
timed_read) and put in another tip in the TCL HINTS section of
the man page.
11/18/90 2.26 Fixed mismatched comment per Craig Warren (ccw@deakin.oz.au).
Also improved man page entry for "interact".
11/17/90 2.25 Added -f (fast) on interact options, and made default case a
little more efficient. Added explicit support for SIG_IGN and
SIG_DFL in trap command. Added ability to specify signals
symbolically for portability.
11/15/90 2.24 Craig Warren (ccw@deakin.oz.au) wanted to exit expect while in
interact with a single character. Dan Bernstein
(brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu) wanted to suspend with a single
character. So I generalized interact's escape character to
string-action pairs.
11/7/90 2.23 Tired of getting reports that various (Ultrix 3.1, BSD4.3) C
compilers can't handle ternary conditionals returning ptr to
func returning void. Made all (2) such statements into
if-then-elses. Per Steve Simmons (scs@iti.org).
10/8/90 2.22 Allow "log_file" even when no log is open. This makes user
programming a little simpler - they don't have to remember
whether they opened the log or not.
9/27/90 2.21 Fixed bug, v2.19 introduced. debuglog(unknown string) requires
a "%s" as formatting for protection against %'s in the unknown
string.
9/17/90 2.20 4 syntax errors in interact_poll.c, vik@sequent.com. Added
quotes to all the sends (now that this is more efficient) in
the examples and man pages. Also removed a misstatement in the
man page about the behavior of double quotes.
9/15/90 2.19 Removed buffering from send command. Originally, I buffered
the args, so I could do it all in one write. But to send
variables bigger than the buffer didn't work. I didn't think
about this before. But Joe Gorman
(Joe.Gorman@elab-runit.sintef.no) asked me if you could "send"
a file in one command, and of course you can using [exec cat]
as the argument to send, but the damn buffering prevented big
files from being sent. Anyway, now it works.
9/14/90 Fixed the declarations of nflog and nferrlog. Added a #define
so lack of pid_t could be controlled from the Makefile. Per
Andy Holyer (and@ux.rfhsm.lon.ac.uk)
9/4/90 2.18 Added trap command to catch signals. This is nice as (among
other things) it allows you to turn off the conversion of ^C to
timeout which was requested by John Conti <jconti@cisco.com>.
8/21/90 2.17 Fixed bug in printify. Forgot to reset ptr to beginning of
print buffer. Made debugging info wrong. Possibly screwing up
other things on overflow.
Paper accepted into USENIX LISA!
8/15/90 Cleaned up man page. Made tabs line things up correctly,
finally.
Found another problem with ptys (at least under SunOS 4.1 and
earlier). When last pty-slave fd closed, any unread output is
lost after a short window of time (around 10 seconds on a
Sun 3/60). Sent example ptybug.c to Sun demonstrating this and
EIO problem found earlier. (Service Order #553061)
8/6/90 2.16 Added -f to debug command, -a to log_file command. This
required significant changes, including revisiting all the
logging routines, plus miscellaneous output done in special
places. Noted that it cannot be done with getopt, since it
could be called during main's getopt, and getopt is not
reentrant! (Guess how I discovered this!!)
I'm not particularly happy with the design, but maybe others
won't be. In any case, I like the benefit of it and am now
glad that -a was asked for. Per Harry Bochner and Ira Fuchs
(fuchs@pucc.bitnet).
Changed behavior of argv, so that 0 == [length $argv] when no
script/args supplied.
8/4/90 2.15 Added debug command, so -d-ness could be changed while expect
is running.
7/20/90 2.14 Fixed small bug in -d output from expect, which printed ^Z as
^:
7/18/90 2.13 Added wait command. A waitpid/waitspawnid would be nice and
cleaner, too, but since csh doesn't need it, it is probably not
worth much.
Consequently, removed SIGCHLD handling from command.c. It
worked under SV but not BSD. By forcing users to explicitly
code waits, resulting scripts are more portable.
Rewrote rogue example. rogue sometimes misses EOF (generated
by close on our side) and continues reading.
7/16/90 2.12 Removed buffering from variadic log routines. This was
faulting when the buffers overflowed.
Cleaned up the -d output from expect, so it is much more
readable. For example, control characters are now visible.
7/14/90 2.11 Added declaration for errno, to support 4.3BSD. Per Alan
Crosswell. Added -i flag and related behavior.
7/12/90 2.10 Fixed bug where timeout = 0 waited forever rather than not
waiting at all.
7/11/90 Fixed man page example which didn't include the blank on the
end of an ftp prompt.
7/9/90 2.9 Fixed bug in send when spawn_id = $user_spawn_id.
6/27/90 2.8 Integrated some mods from clem cole (clemc@ccc.com) to support
System V.3 (386/ix Version 2.02). Unfortunately, he didn't do
"select".
6/25/90 2.7 Test that cmdfile and logfile are open before fclosing in child
while spawning. Per Corey Satten <corey@cac.washington.edu>
6/24/90 2.6 Pty master returns EIO instead of EOF when pty slave closes.
Bug in pty driver? Until I figure this out, I have put in code
to interpret EIO to EOF.
6/21/90 Added new section to expect man page - Tcl hints.
6/14/90 Spoke at USENIX. Went well. Added USENIX paper as separate
ftp archive.
6/4/90 2.5 Fixed bug in ^C catching during expect. Changed man page to
accurately describe what ^C does. Fixed bug that caused "send"
to screw up when handed 0 arguments. All per Harry Bochner.
6/1/90 2.4 Made trailing empty action in expect optional, primarily to
make straightline code easier to read.
5/15/90 2.3 Changed expect to strip nulls from program output since there
is no way for Tcl to handle them, per Harry Bochner.
5/5/90 Added "send_error" command.
4/26/90 Got USENIX paper back from Kolstad to proof. Am depressed at
how awfully they formatted it.
4/25/90 2.2 Eric Newton found that expect's special variables weren't being
found inside of user subroutines. Had to do with new Tcl,
which now differentiates between variables that are undefined
vs. empty.
4/24/90 Upgraded Tcl from 2.1 to 3.3.
4/22/90 Added special behaviors of ^C in expect, and when profiling.
Profiled rogue (at urging of Ousterhout).
4/10/90 2.1 Added select command. Added support for user_spawn_id so that
you could treat user just like another process (i.e. with send
and expect). Decided to leave send_user/expect, since scripts
are more readable with them.
4/2/90 2.0 Changed syntax of expect to provide alternatives (a la Tcl
case), per suggestion of John Ousterhout. Note that this
breaks pre-2.0 scripts.
3/31/90 Got great comments from Ousterhout. (This time he said that he
really liked the idea. Maybe he realizes how much it will
promote Tcl!)
3/30/90 Got comments from dpk. Made me think more about Perl.
3/28/90 Evi said I should turn the paper in unformatted and they will
format it. (She's kidding, I hope.)
3/27/90 1.8 Rewrote interface so that raw arguments can be passed in like a
shell. I'd been thinking about this for some time, but Eric
Newton finally prodded me into action.
3/25/90 Got first corrections for paper - from Sue Mulroney!
3/24/90 Observed that it is possible to use the #! syntax with expect.
I asked John O. about this (his choice of # as a comment
character), and he said it was pure coincidence. Deprecated
request to end scripts in ".exp".
Ted Hopp volunteered to be my Center WERB reader.
3/23/90 Finished 1st draft of USENIX paper and sent copies to John
Ousterhout and panel chair, dpk@morgan.com.
3/20/90 1.7 Deprecated "stty", and added more general "system" command.
Sent Evi some complaints about the business of not allowing
camera-ready at USENIX.
3/17/90 Sent copies of man page to Doug Gwyn and Larry Wall for
comments. Note that gwyn downloaded it.
3/16/90 Am really irritated by USENIX. My paper has been put in a
session against another session, the BSD people. Furthermore,
they called my paper an application, when it is no more so than
any other shell or language. Better I should be in "lessons
learned". Mashey said take a hike, i.e., it was too late to
change the schedule. On top of that, our session has four
people in it, so I'll have very little time to speak. Grrrr.
3/13/90 1.6 Added "stty", because without it you can't do things like
turning off echo to accept a password.
3/8/90 1.5 Abstract was accepted into USENIX!!!! Time to start writing
it! Sent man page to Ousterhout. He didn't seem too
impressed.
Added "send_user/expect_user" after listening to Ken complain
about how shell could not do timed reads. Actually it can, but
expect does it much more naturally. Deprecated echo. Now, I
realize that expect can be viewed as a shell!
Changed logfile/loguser to log_file/log_user to match all the
variables with underscores in them.
Barry Warsaw asked if there was any way one could execute any
command from interact (apparently without any reason in mind).
Nonetheless, it is a wonderful idea, and I changed the "abort
character" in interact to an "escape mechanism". After
escaping, you may execute any command. return duplicates the
old action of the abort character. Now you can do interactive
job control, recursive interacts, etc. You can bet I didn't
get this right the first time!
At Scott's request, fixed bug related to pty initializing.
Scott was putting expect in the background which disassociated
it from a tty, and I was blindly copying the tty parameters
without checking to see if they were meaningful or not.
Tightened up exit code. Fixed bug in spawn so it would print
error messages when it failed. Spawn sends back the error
message in the pty, if the fork succeeds but exec fails. Cute!
Added "close" command. Makes scripts much shorter and cleaner.
Return string matched by expect directly, rather than setting a
special variable.
Added "match_max" feature. Probably no one will ever use it.
Added trace command.
3/6/90 1.4 Rob Densock was the second user, and suggested (demanded?) the
idea of the loguser command. I added it and changed "log" to
"logfile" making the first incompatibility with existing
scripts (sorry, Steve).
3/1/90 1.3 Trying to make pty code more robust. Many questions unanswered
by manuals. Did a lot of guessing. While debugging, looked
through pty code in gnuemacs to see if I might increase
portability somehow. I almost barfed when I saw all the funky
ifdefs on weird ioctls. Found lots of comments like "this
might work".
2/28/90 Sent a short Tcl bug list to John Ousterhout. He thanked me!
2/22-3/90 1.2 Hooked my first user, Steve Ray. Surprisingly, he only found
one bug in the code (exit didn't handle args correctly), but it
was obvious that I need to put more explanation in the man
page. Many of the examples in the man page are based upon his
probl.. questions. Thanks, Steve!
2/20/90 Posted news about expect to "general" newsgroup locally.
2/15-20/90 Talked to local POSIX reps and then to Steve Albert (AT&T)
about portability of select, wait and other system calls. I'm
not impressed by 1003.1.
2/9/90 John Ousterhout answered some questions I had about Tcl syntax.
I like this language!
2/8/90 1.1 Sandy Ressler suggested the idea of being able to spawn
multiple programs at the same time although he didn't say how.
It took about a day to design and code the spawn_id hook.
Extremely difficult to support this with uucp-style kludge.
Switched to using select. So much for portability.
I investigated how to do this portably, and spent some time
talking to NIST & AT&T POSIX representatives. Unfortunately,
portability (especially when it comes to select()) remains a
dream. Provided multiple versions of "interact" depending upon
what OS you are running.
2/7/90 1.0 Completed first cut of "sex" (for "Smart EXec" or
"Send/EXpect"). Supports send, expect, echo, log, spawn,
interact.
Spent a lot of time making "log" write to log in just the right
order (across fork and while debug flag enabled). Ended up
writing a bunch of variadic log routines.
Fooled around with uucp-style multiple processes versus one
process doing select() to read asynchronously. Using
uucp-style for now, since it is more portable.
Gave up on pipes, and switched to ptys. Pipes seem to be
messed up by ftp, perhaps because it goes into raw mode? Ptys
are more efficient and cleaner to program albeit less
well-documented and portable from system to system.
Ken Manheimer helped me explain what the program does. I kept
saying it does "send/expect" processing, and he kept insisting
that was meaningless to everyone. (In fact, it comes from
uucp, and I guess uucp hackers are indeed a dying breed.) Ken
gave me an elegant enough sentence that I expanded it into an
abstract and sent it in to the USENIX conference the following
day (two days after the deadline).
I noted that the uucp documentation I referenced in the
submission is dated October 31, 1978!
1/30/90 0.0 Got a copy of Tcl and went to work. Tcl was exactly what I
need. Plus, it is easy to use, AND it is documented.
1/25/90 Attended Winter 1990 USENIX in DC, with the goal of banging
heads with some other gurus in hopes of finding a good
send/expect language for a generalized stelnet. Had looked at
uucp and kermit but found nothing general enough.
Listened to John Ousterhout's presentation on Tcl. By the
middle of the talk, I had found religion. At the end when he
said it was public-domain, I was ready to orgasm.
*/*/88-89 Spent a lot of time telling Scott how useful his program could
be if he made it more general. I thought it wouldn't be that
difficult to make more generic. Scott was interested but not
enough to do it.
9/25/87 Helped Scott Paisley write a program called stelnet, that
forked a telnet and did very simple send/expect processing.
It used pipes, not ptys. It had no pattern matching, and only
straight-line control without error handling. Nonetheless,
this got me to thinking about making stelnet more generic.