Oct file unload?

[marcimatz]

Hello,

I prepared an oct file that allows to exchange data with another application
"behind the scene". Simplified, there are 3 functions:

1. startCommunicationThread(...)
2. sendAndReceiveData(...)
3. endCommunicationThread()

Those 3 functions work fine. They are autoloaded in following ways:

octfile = strcat(pwd,"\\communication.oct");
autoload("startCommunicationThread",octfile);
autoload("sendAndReceiveData",octfile);
autoload("endCommunicationThread",octfile);

When I call them from an M-file, this works fine too. However, if the
program flow breaks (because of some error) and endCommunicationThread is
not called, my thread continues to "do its thing". This becomes even more
problematic if I try to call startCommunicationThread again.

Is there a way to unload the oct file? By that I mean remove it from memory?
I tried "clear" the oct file, "clear" the 3 function names, etc. Nothing
helped. The communication thread continues to live. The only option I have
is to quit octave and restart it again. Which is very troublesome.

Thanks for any insight.

Cheers,
Marc




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