Re: private directories

[James Sherman Jr.]

On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 1:03 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:

On  3-Mar-2012, Muhali wrote:

| > I've never liked that data files could also be found by searching a
| > list of directories and I find the idea of also searching private
| > directories quite strange.
|
| I agree. But the big appeal of octave is, for the user at least, its matlab
| compatibility, so that code that has been developed elsewhere can be run
| from octave.
|
| For me this case occurs constantly, for example with M-MAP
| (http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html), and of course I would like to be
| able to run the code as smoothly as possible. Glitches like the one
| described here hinder that and are, from the user perspective, an annoyance.
|
| Compatibility should remain high priority for octave, even if it means
| sacrificing some coding stnadards.

I see you filed a feature request for this, which is fine.  Maybe
someone will volunteer to fix the problem for you.  If you want it
faster, consider paying someone to do the work.

jwe

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I'm not sure what the expected behavior is.  Does matlab look in directories named "<pwd>/private" when a mat file is invoked?  When I think of private directories, I think of directories that only the owner of the directory has permission to read or write to it.  This seems to not be the case here.

James Sherman