From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Thu Mar 28 11:27:17 2002
Subject: Re: Update: Auto-reload not working in 2.1.34/Linux
From: John Collins <jcollins at cs dot umn dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
CC: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:28:44 -0600

John Collins wrote:

> I've been using Octave for some time, mostly 2.1.33 on a Redhat Linux 
> 7.1 system. I moved over to RH 7.2 and Octave 2.1.34, and I find that 
> the "automatic reload" function doesn't work any more when I edit a 
> function file. The value of ignore_function_time_stamp is "system", as 
> expected. When I edit a function file and then re-invoke the function, 
> I see the old version. I don't see any way to force loading a new 
> version short of restarting Octave. I'm running Octave inside of 
> emacs, and I've tried using the emacs "send current function" option 
> in the code buffer, but the comments don't get parsed correctly when I 
> do that. I don't see any way to manually force reload of a function if 
> the timestamp method fails.
>
> Is this a known problem, or am I missing something fundamental here? 


A little more exploration reveals that this happens with the function 
file resides on an nfs-mounted volume, but octave does the right thing 
if the function file is on a local volume. Anyone know whether this is 
an octave problem or a Linux problem?

Cheers -

John Collins



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