RE: Re: New function proposal

[John W. Eaton]

On 15-Feb-2007, address@hidden wrote:

| > When you work it out sent me a patch
|  
| OK, here's an updated version:
| - move popen2 code into lo-sysdep.cc => octave_popen2
| - keep popen2 interface in octave_syscalls class
| - modify pipe interface to separate read/write ends of the pipe
|  
| While doing this, I realized that the POSIX implementation of
| popen2 relies on members of octave_syscalls, so I had to
| cross-include lo-sysdep.h and oct-syscalls.h, because I move the
| entire implementation in lo-sysdep.cc. Another possibility would
| be to keep the POSIX implementation in oct-syscalls.cc and put
| only the other impl in lo-sysdep.cc. Which one is better?

For now, please leave the POSIX code in lo-syscalls and put the
Windows code in sysdep.

Thanks,

jwe