Package: expect Version: 5.44.1.14-5 When using regular expression matching in the "expect" statement, recent versions of expect create a glob pattern and use that as a gatekeeper, to avoid running the "slow" regular expression matcher. The assumption is that running a glob match is always a lot faster.
That assumption is false. I have reported this upstream at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=113179&aid=3010684&group_id=13179 where you can find a small script that triggers the problem, and a couple of proposed solutions. Since it is now more than two months since I reported the problem, I also report it here, hoping that Debian might be more responsive. I'm not actually a Debian user, but an Ubuntu user. I have also reported this issue at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/expect/+bug/612523 /ceder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
