[racket] Embedding multiline shell scipts

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sun Feb 6 18:43:17 EST 2011

7 hours ago, Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Once you get into "expect"-like interaction with a process using the
> three streams at once, and doing pattern-matching while also
> capturing the output, and doing this all efficiently, it's tricky.
> [...]

Dealing with the three streams and pattern matching on them while
taking care of synchronization issues is needed, but there's another
headache for doing an expect-like thing.  Some programs will behave
differently when they're working on a pty, so you'd also need to deal
with that somehow.  (For example, running ssh and feeding it a
password is something that requires that.)

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