[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: Bug#244070: octave2.1-emacsen: octave quits when working with popen

[Pascal A. Dupuis]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 12:06:09AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> This problem seems to fixed in a more recent version of Octave.  I tested
> with Octave 2.1.65 and 2.1.67 (now in unstable) for both Emacs21 and
> XEmacs21.  In all cases I get:
> 
> octave> fid = popen ("ls -ltr / | tail -3", "r");
> octave> fid
> fid =
> {
>   id = 3
>   name = ls -ltr / | tail -3
>   mode = r
>   arch = ieee_little_endian
>   status = open
> }
> octave>
> 
> I think we can close this bug report, but I would like to hear a
> confirmation from the submitter soon.
> 
Working on Sarge (octave_2.1.64-1, emacs_21.3+1-8), the bug is still
present. Maybe we could we until 2.1.65 is in Sarge ?

Pascal Dupuis

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