Re: Print plot error

[Rob Mahurin]

On Aug 24, 2009, at 5:17 PM, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Rob Mahurin<address@hidden> wrote:
> > I think the solution is an occasional waitpid(-1,0,WNOHANG), but  
> > I'm not
>
> I just added
> waitpid(-1, 0)
> to the end of print() function (in print.m) and that seems to solve  
> the problem.
>
> Again, I am not sure if this is the solution, but at least can be a  
> workaround
> for now.

Oh!  I didn't realize waitpid was also an Octave function.

You probably want waitpid(-1,WNOHANG) so that print won't freeze if  
there is actually no child.

Attached as a patch (which is not a changeset, sorry).  This would be  
good for 3.2.3.

Rob

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Rob Mahurin
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