Re: Is fork() broken in octave 5.1 ?

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 17:37:13 +0200, Kay Nick wrote:
> ...or am I getting something wrong here?
> 
> Dear folks,
> 
> this simple script (forktest.m)
> 
> A=23;
> [pid, msg]=fork();
> if (pid > 0)
>   pid
>   msg
> endif
> 
> gives me the error
> 
> >> forktest
> 
> error: fork: cannot be called from command line
> error: called from
>     forktest at line 2 column 11
> 
> >>
> 
> Tested it on Arch Linux as well as Manjaro (64 bit) with all recent
> updates installed. Any idea?

The error message says "command line", but includes scripts as well.
This error was added intentionally, so it looks to me like the function
is working correctly. Have you tried turning forktest.m into a function
file?

-- 
mike

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