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Re: crashes with octave3.2 when $HOME/.octave_hist is not writable
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: crashes with octave3.2 when $HOME/.octave_hist is not writable |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:03:52 -0400 |
On 26-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
| On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 18:32 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 25-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
| >
| > | To reproduce do e.g:
| > |
| > | $ export HOME=/
| > | $ echo version | octave
| [...]
| > You are getting this message when Octave tries to write the history
| > file and it fails because of permission problems. I already fixed the
| > problem the development sources. Now I see this:
|
| Thanks for fixing the problem.
|
| > $ HOME=/ /usr/local/octave/devel/bin/octave
| > GNU Octave, version 3.3.50+
| > Copyright (C) 2009 John W. Eaton and others.
| > This is free software; see the source code for copying conditions.
| > There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or
| > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. For details, type `warranty'.
| >
| > Octave was configured for "x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu".
| >
| > Additional information about Octave is available at http://www.octave.org.
| >
| > Please contribute if you find this software useful.
| > For more information, visit http://www.octave.org/help-wanted.html
| >
| > Report bugs to <address@hidden> (but first, please read
| > http://www.octave.org/bugs.html to learn how to write a helpful report).
| >
| > For information about changes from previous versions, type `news'.
| >
| > octave:1> quit
| >
| > error: Permission denied
| > error: ignoring octave_execution_exception while preparing to exit
|
| Will octave3.2 return 0 back to the shell (as did 3.0?)
|
| $ ( ( echo version | octave3.0 >/dev/null) ; echo $? )
| error: Permission denied
| 0
Yes.
jwe