Re: Locking graphics system - GUI/octave synchronization

[Jaroslav Hajek]

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.
>

Just built, and can't reproduce. Everything works normally.

> jwe
>
>



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