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task #4319: Understand tcl/expect issue with global timeout
Submitter: | Claudio Fontana <sick_soul> | ||
Submitted: | Sun 26 Jun 2005 09:31:38 PM UTC | ||
Should Start On: | Sun 26 Jun 2005 12:00:00 AM UTC | Should be Finished on: | Mon 26 Jun 2006 12:00:00 AM UTC |
Priority: | 5 - Normal | Status: | Done |
Assigned to: | sick_soul | Open/Closed: | Closed |
Additional notes: | The problem has been determined to be caused by a "feature" (bug) of Expect. Thanks to Stephen Peters for the catch.
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Assigned to | None | sick_soul | |||
Additional notes | The problem has been determined to be caused by a "feature" (bug) of Expect. Thanks to Stephen Peters for the catch. |
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Some work is needed to understand why bug #13440 , currently solved with a workaround, happened in the first place. It could be a bug in sourceinstall, or a bug in tcl or a bug in Expect.
Strangely, the global variable 'timeout', which is set once and for all to -1, reverts back to the default value (10) in some procedures, even though 'global timeout' has been specified.
For more details, see latest source code (CVS), or sourceinstall release 0.3 or newer. There are comments in the code at the beginning, where the global variable timeout is set to -1.
The comments there explain the bug in detail, and offer a way to reproduce it.