Re: wait_for_file ??

[Michael D Godfrey]

On 09/07/2010 08:55 PM, Shai Ayal wrote:

 I would be happy if you could
confirm this by another printf just before the fopen.

Here is is, as you expected:

octave:1> plot(1:20)
octave:2> print ('gl2ps_t1x.pdf','-dpdf')
GPL Ghostscript 8.71: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
warning: print.m: Error: /undefinedfilename in (/tmp/oct-r9ITjC.eps)
Operand stack:

Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   false   1   %stopped_push
Dictionary stack:
   --dict:1158/1684(ro)(G)--   --dict:0/20(G)--   --dict:70/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is local
Last OS error: 2
, 'gl2ps_t1x.pdf'.
warning: print.m: No such file or directory, '/tmp/oct-r9ITjC.eps'.
octave:3> About to fopen /tmp/oct-r9ITjC.eps
fclose of /tmp/oct-r9ITjC.eps OK>

octave:3>
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Now, will the pipe version really fix this?  Back to reread John's suggestion.

Michael