[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45625] fork on command line

[Ceral Paquet]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #45625 (project octave):

More fork weirdness causing octave to hang. 

>> A=fork_test(); % this seems to work, it returns and I get a plot
waiting for 6261
>> figure % this does nothing
>> figure 2 % ditto
>> close all % ditto
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> exit % doesn't work - we're stuck


The function is below. Again, there isn't much info on how to use fork so this
is a bit of guesswork.



function A = fork_test()

[pid, msg] = fork();

if pid
  # wait child to complete
  disp(["waiting for ", num2str(pid)]);
  % do some useful work  
  plot(1:10)

  waitpid(pid)
else
  % do some useful work
  A = randn(100);
  pause(10);
endif



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