Re: PATCH for Re: exiting embedded mode gracefully

[Matt Flax]

Yep, that works !

static void local_exit(int){}
void (*octave_exit) (int) = local_exit;

thanks
Matt

On 10/05/16 01:14, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 16:40:03 +1000, Matt Flax wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have attached a patch which makes it possible to cleanup octave without
> > exiting the process.
> > It is pretty simple, just exposed the function do_octave_atexit for linking.
> >
> > This allows the exiting of octave without killing the process or sleeping
> > for days ! As it just exposes the function for linking against, it doesn't
> > alter the inner workings of the current exit methodology.
> We're probably unlikely to accept this, but feel free to use it
> yourself. More acceptable would be a new function to do the cleanup
> without exiting.
>
> Alternatively have you tried setting the octave_exit function pointer to
> a no-op function or a function that calls pthread_exit? It's already
> made a public part of the API and by my reading it should do what you
> want.