From 6b600812d52dd14146de4dc3e83c39f54f3b27cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 11:51:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about clearing the input buffer in mexp_expect.
---
miniexpect.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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 (;;) {
--
1.8.3.1