From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Feb 26 21:03:49 1998 Subject: an octave unix execution question From: Terrence Brannon To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Cc: holt at lnc dot usc dot edu, poirazi@lnc.usc.edu, consult@skat.usc.edu Date: 26 Feb 1998 19:04:11 -0800 We have a user, who is having a situation on 3 different platforms with 2.0.9: alpha-linux, dec-osf-3.2, and libc6 pentium linux. She invokes octave from the shell and then types in the name of the file containing the code she wants to execute, sans `.m' Then she does what I didnt think could be done: she types control-z, then types bg and then logs out of the machine. When she logs back in, the jobs is apparently still running (top displays its status as R). When I tried this, I got the following scenario: brannon at sand ~/rs/octave : octave Octave, version 2.0.9 (alpha-dec-osf3.2). Copyright (C) 1996, 1997 John W. Eaton. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details, type `warranty'. octave.bin:1> simple [1]+ Stopped octave brannon at sand ~/rs/octave : exit exit There are stopped jobs. brannon at sand ~/rs/octave : But she is not warned "There are stopped jobs." when she makes her first exit attempt. Lately she has been saying that Octave has been dying on her when she does this, but, I did not think this was unusual, for I thought all child processes, bg'ed or not, would be killed upon exit. -- Terrence Brannon * brannon at lnc dot usc dot edu * http://lnc.usc.edu/~brannon USC, HNB, 3614 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 * (213) 740-3397 Great Milk Debate... http://www.milk.com vs. http://www.notmilk.com