Re: Oct file unload?

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 9:16 PM, marcimatz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I prepared an oct file that allows to exchange data with another application
> "behind the scene". Simplified, there are 3 functions:
>
> 1. startCommunicationThread(...)
> 2. sendAndReceiveData(...)
> 3. endCommunicationThread()
>
> Those 3 functions work fine. They are autoloaded in following ways:
>
> octfile = strcat(pwd,"\\communication.oct");
> autoload("startCommunicationThread",octfile);
> autoload("sendAndReceiveData",octfile);
> autoload("endCommunicationThread",octfile);
>
> When I call them from an M-file, this works fine too. However, if the
> program flow breaks (because of some error) and endCommunicationThread is
> not called, my thread continues to "do its thing". This becomes even more
> problematic if I try to call startCommunicationThread again.
>
> Is there a way to unload the oct file? By that I mean remove it from memory?
> I tried "clear" the oct file, "clear" the 3 function names, etc. Nothing
> helped. The communication thread continues to live. The only option I have
> is to quit octave and restart it again. Which is very troublesome.
>
> Thanks for any insight.
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
>
>
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Some time ago I prepared this patch
https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=7888

I do not know if it was applied to the default branch already. I any
case you can try it and see if it works for you.