[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45231] The run command does not return back to the originating directory

[Tasos Papastylianou]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #45231 (project octave):

Hi Mike, thanks for the correction!

I was misled by the fact that strcmp(d,pwd) on line 70 of run.m was giving me
0, when it looked logical in the code that they should be the same, and they
did look the same by eye at a quick glance! Sorry, I should have confirmed
strcmp further!

The real culprit seems to be the canonicalize_file_name step on line 64,
combined with my use of 'Unix-style' file-separators on a windows machine.
This fails to correct the file separator just above the directory as you can
see below


d   = C:UserstasosDesktop/Child Directory
pwd = C:UserstasosDesktopChild Directory


therefore string comparison fails.

I fixed this on my system by adding a fullfile(d) instruction under line 64,
but I suppose someone should really fix this directly in the built-in
canonicalize_file_name function eventually!

Thanks for looking at this :)

PS. Is there a way to delete / strikethrough the previous patch?

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