Re: Octave 4.0.1 CTRL-C questions

[Marco Atzeri]

On 25/05/2016 17:41, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 15:22:03 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> > Same on cygwin.
> >
> > Technically the message is correct
> >  "Press Control-C again to abort."
> >
> > It is octave execution that is aborting.... ;-)
>
> This is the same on any operating system.
>
> Please don't confuse the issue by bringing the `less` pager into the
> problem. That is the known behavior of less, it does not respond to
> interrupts, and Octave does not force kill it when it receives an
> interrupt. It's been this way since the beginning of time.

Hi Mike,
I am aware. Less stand alone ignore CTRL+C

> Please make sure to run `more off` first when working on identifying and
> debugging these possible Ctrl+C issues.

It is not a less issue.
However it seems a potential race issues

I can obtain the same results with sombrero()
if I hit CTRL+C 3 times before the plot is completed.


octave:1> more off
octave:2> sombrero()
Press Control-C again to abort.
panic: Interrupt -- stopping myself...
attempting to save variables to 'octave-workspace'...
save to 'octave-workspace' complete

Regards
Marco