Re: Print plot error

[Dmitri A. Sergatskov]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Rob Mahurin<address@hidden> wrote:
>> 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
>
> --
> Rob Mahurin
> University of Manitoba, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
> at:     Oak Ridge National Laboratory   865 207 2594
>        Oak Ridge, Tennessee           address@hidden
>

With WNOHANG I see few (one or two) defunct processes remains after
loop of ~100 prints.

Dmitri.
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