Re: 3.8 Bug Fix update

[Andreas Weber]

Am 08.11.2013 09:27, schrieb Thorsten Liebig:
> Am 07.11.2013 22:33, schrieb John W. Eaton:
>> On 11/07/2013 03:27 AM, Thorsten Liebig wrote:
>>> Am 06.11.2013 22:10, schrieb John W. Eaton:
>>>> On 11/06/2013 04:06 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Am I missing something or isn't the issue there that Ctrl-C does work in
>>>>> most cases, but doesn't work when Octave is inside a call to the sleep
>>>>> function? And that is only happening on Windows, correct?
>>> Actually it always happened on Linux and at some time (month ago) I believe 
>>> it worked fine on Windows...
>>>
>>> It is of course not only about sleeping, I run numeric simulations using 
>>> Octave as an interface to an external software (http://openEMS.de).
>>> But if the simulation is running, I cannot abort it using CTRL+C if I need 
>>> to.  Thus the GUI is currently unusable for me and the users of this
>>> numeric tool.
>>
>> How is the external software called from Octave?
>>
>> jwe
> 
> Somthing like this:
> system('/opt/bin/openEMS.sh  file_to_simulate.xml');
> And the xml-file was written with the Octave interface...


So a testcase would be:
system('openssl speed md5')

which could be aborted with CTRL+C in the terminal:
octave:1> system('openssl speed md5')
Doing md5 for 3s on 16 size blocks: 10057975 md5's in 3.00s
Doing md5 for 3s on 64 size blocks: ^Cans =  2
octave:2>

but not in the GUI? Andy