Patch for 'expect'

[Scot Hetzel]

On 12/14/06, Eric Brunson <brunson at brunson.com> wrote:
> Hi Ports Maintainers,
>
> I just spent the last few days sorting out a problem with expect on my
> 6.1 box.  I have a patch to the expect interpreter on this platform that
> I'd like to offer for your review.  There's a problem with the way
> expect searches for available ptys that makes it only capable of
> utilizing the first 64 device nodes rather than the full 256 available.
>
> I'm brand new to the FreeBSD community coming from years on Solaris and
> AIX, so I don't know the "channels" through which to push this.  It's a
> very simple patch, 3 lines of code change, context diff drops right into
> /usr/ports/lang/expect/files.  I also have test cases that show the
> behavior before and after the patch.
>
To send changes/file a problem report for a port, you can use either send-pr:

    send-pr -a patch-file

or the web send-pr form:

    http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

to submit an update for the port.

Scot
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