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+#
+# Copyright (c) 2019, Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+#
+
+# If we exit from a secondary uart, and if that had lots of prints, then the
+# model will stall. See: https://jira.arm.com/browse/SDDKW-43675. So, we wait
+# here expect for something that never arrives.
+
+set timeout -1
+puts "<<holding terminal>>"
+expect {
+	"FOOBAR" {
+		exit_uart -1
+	}
+}