Re: crashes with octave3.2 when $HOME/.octave_hist is not writable

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 18:32 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 25-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> 
> | To reproduce do e.g:
> | 
> | $ export HOME=/
> | $ echo version | octave
[...]
> You are getting this message when Octave tries to write the history
> file and it fails because of permission problems.  I already fixed the
> problem the development sources.  Now I see this:

Thanks for fixing the problem.

>   $ HOME=/ /usr/local/octave/devel/bin/octave
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>   octave:1> quit
> 
>   error: Permission denied
>   error: ignoring octave_execution_exception while preparing to exit

Will octave3.2 return 0 back to the shell (as did 3.0?)

$ ( ( echo version | octave3.0 >/dev/null) ; echo $? ) 
error: Permission denied
0

$ ( ( echo version | octave3.2 >/dev/null) ; echo $? )
error: Permission denied
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'octave_execution_exception'
panic: Aborted -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to `octave-core'...
save to `octave-core' complete
134

> Please report bugs to the address@hidden list, not the help list.

OK next time.

Thanks,
Soeren

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