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subprocesses
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
subprocesses |
Date: |
Wed, 5 Feb 1997 15:27:22 -0600 |
On 5-Feb-1997, James Walter Taylor <address@hidden> wrote:
| I'm using octave to drive the testing of a pattern recognition
| program. An octave script generates a pattern, stores it in a
| file and starts an external process which processes the data.
|
| i.e. a loop around a construct like:
|
| ---
| V = blah();
| fdx=fopen(tmpFile, 'w');
| fprintf(fdx, '%d\n', V);
| fclose(fdx);
|
| [result,s] = system(['/home/james/newthing <' tmpFile ]);
|
| ---
| millions of times. Well after only a few 10s of thousands of times
| I see errors like:
|
| error: unable to start subprocess for `/home/james/newthing
</tmp/7241Data.dat'
| error: evaluating index expression near line 24, column 14
| error: evaluating assignment expression near line 24, column 12
| ... etc.
|
| And at that point even "ls" produces errors:
| ---
| octave:27> ls
| error: couldn't start process for ls!
| error: evaluating expression near line 27, column 1
| ---
This sounds like a bug. It might be a bug in Octave, but I can't be
sure.
What version of Octave are you using? What kind of system are you
using? What does the external program do?
I took a guess, and tried running
for i = 1:100000
fn = tmpnam ();
fd = fopen (fn, 'w');
fprintf (fd, '%d\n', i);
fclose (fd);
[result, s] = system (['cat ', fn]);
printf (result);
fflush (stdout);
unlink (fn);
endfor
but it seems to work correctly.
Please send bug reports to address@hidden, and please
include enough information so that I might be able to fix the
problem. The Bugs chapter in the Octave manual has a list of items
that should be in every bug report, and includes tips for writing bug
reports that will help to ensure that the bug is actually fixed.
Thanks,
jwe
- subprocesses, James Walter Taylor, 1997/02/05
- subprocesses,
John W. Eaton <=