[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#550823: Acknowledgement (octave3.2: Race condition with multiple Octave instances when creating M-files on the fly)

Sébastien Villemot sebastien.villemot at ens.fr
Tue Oct 13 09:31:48 UTC 2009


Well, actually it's not a race between multiple instances of Octave, but
between Octave and unlink().

The following is enough for triggering the bug:

$ touch foo3.m && rm -f foo3.m && octave foo2.m

While the following works fine:

$ touch foo3.m && rm -f foo3.m && sleep 1 && octave foo2.m

Forwarded to Octave bug mailing list:
https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-October/009607.html

Best,

-- 
Sébastien Villemot







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