Re: timed subprocess

[Olaf Till]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 02:21:36PM +0200, Alexander Poddey wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I need to spawn a thread which runs in background and calls a function / 
> script every x ms.
> Did some searching, but found nothing which matches my needs.
> 
> Would one do this based on popen? I have the impression that popen is for 
> system commands...
> 
> 
> Thx
> Alex

Yes, popen is for system commands. You would need to use fork and possibly
waitpid (and maybe pause). I don't know what you need it for, but you can't
e.g. change variables of your parent Octave session in the background this
way.

Olaf