[reproducer for races of expect incomplete reads]
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12649
The '-notransfer -re "<return>" { exp_continue }' trick in the current
tests doesn't actually work.
The issue that led to the -notransfer trick was that
"---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---"
has two "<return>"s. If one wants gdb_test_multiple to not hit the
built-in "<return>" match that results in FAIL, one has to expect the
pagination prompt in chunks, first up to the first "<return>", then
again, up to the second. Something around these lines:
The intent was for -notransfer+exp_continue to make expect fetch more
input, and rerun the matches against the now potentially fuller
buffer, and then eventually the -re that includes the full pagination
prompt regex would match instead (because it's listed higher up, it
would match first). But, once that "<return>" -notransfer -re
matches, it keeps re-matching forever. It seems like with
exp_continue, expect immediately retries matching, instead of first
reading in more data into the buffer, if available.
Fix this like I should have done in the first place. There's actually
no good reason for gdb_test_multiple to only match "<return>". We can
make gdb_test_multiple expect the whole pagination prompt text
instead, which is store in the 'pagination_prompt' global (similar to
'gdb_prompt'). Then a gdb_test_multiple caller that doesn't want the
default match to trigger, because it wants to see one pagination
prompt, does simply: