Re: Locking graphics system - GUI/octave synchronization

[Michael Goffioul]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:42 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 17-Jul-2008, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>
> | On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:35 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> | > OK, I applied the event_management patch.
> |
> | Did you push it? I can't see it on http://www.octave.org/hg/octave
>
> After applying this patch, calls to the system function don't seem to
> return a zero exit status, even when I'm pretty sure that the command
> must be returning zero.  For example, I see
>
>  octave:1> system ("ls")
>  [...]
>  ans =  11
>
> and
>
>  octave:1> system ("/bin/bash -c 'exit 0'")
>  ans =  11
>
> Is anyone else seeing this problem?  Is there a simple fix?  If not,
> I'll have to remove this patch for the upcoming snapshot.

Are you sure this is due to my patch? I'd be surprized it is
the case as the patch does not change the "system" code.
Can you debug and trace the problem? I'm not seeing this
problem.

Michael.