On 11/04/2025 9:32 pm, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > Expect normally discards initial part of its buffer after matching the > patter, before looking for the next one. If both PASSED and LOG_MSG > happen to be in the buffer at the same time, depending on their order, > only one will be matched and the waiting for the other will timeout. > Example expect -d output of this happening (parts eclipsed for brevity): > > expect: does "\r\r\r\nWelcome to Alpine Linux > 3.18\r\r\r\n...\r\r\r\r\n(domU) + echo 'pci test passed'\r\r\r\r\n(domU) pci > test passed\r\r\r\r..." (spawn_id exp4) match regular expression "pci test > passed"? Gate "pci test passed"? gate=yes re=yes > ... > Gate keeper glob pattern for '\nWelcome to Alpine Linux' is ' > Welcome to Alpine Linux'. Activating booster. > expect: does "'\r\r\r\r\n(domU) pci test passed\r\r\r\r\n(domU) [ ok > ]\r\r\r\r\n(domU) [ ok ]\r\r\r\r\n(domU) \r\r\r\r\r\n(domU) domU Welcome to > Alpine Linux 3.18\r\r\r\r\n(domU) \rKernel 6.6.56 on an x86_64 > (/dev/hvc0)\r\r\r\r\n(domU) \r\r\r\r\r\n" (spawn_id exp4) match regular > expression "\nWelcome to Alpine Linux"? Gate "\nWelcome to Alpine Linux"? > gate=no > > Fix this by using -notransfer flag to keep matched part in the buffer. > > Signed-off-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marma...@invisiblethingslab.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citix.com>
