From: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 10:51:25 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Add a note about clearing the input buffer in mexp_expect.
X-Git-Tag: v1.1~26
X-Git-Url: http://git.annexia.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6b600812d52dd14146de4dc3e83c39f54f3b27cc;p=miniexpect.git

Add a note about clearing the input buffer in mexp_expect.
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diff --git a/miniexpect.c b/miniexpect.c
index fef03fd..eca8e9a 100644
--- a/miniexpect.c
+++ b/miniexpect.c
@@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ mexp_expect (mexp_h *h, const mexp_regexp *regexps, int *ovector, int ovecsize)
   time (&start_t);
 
   /* Clear the read buffer. */
+  /* XXX This is possibly incorrect because it throws away inputs that
+   * may not have been matched yet.  A better idea is to record the
+   * end of the previous match and only throw that away.
+   */
   clear_buffer (h);
 
   for (;;) {