Re: open socket with listen() and still have command line available?

[Paul Kienzle]

On May 23, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Brian W. wrote:

> Hi,
> I have a question about the listen(port,...) function as described by  
> 'help
> listen' or at
> http://octave.cvs.sourceforge.net/octave/octave-forge/main/ 
> miscellaneous/doc/listen.txt?view=markup
> .
>
> Is it possible to open a socket via listen(port) and still have the  
> standard
> input stream connected to the octave process?
>
> I have tried all combinations of 'fork'|'nofork' and  
> 'debug'|'nodebug', but
> whenever I have called listen(port), any commands typed into the octave
> command line are ignored (actually the prompt is missing, too).

Normally I talk to the octave session directly from the TCL console.

Since the application forks on each connection there is no benefit from  
interacting with the listening octave.

You could probably program it so that multiple processes interact with  
the same session, including a simulated octave console, and have the  
illusion that the octave which started the listen is continuing, but I  
see no need to do that either.

- Paul