Re: Job Processing

[Carlo De Falco]

> On 28 Aug 2017, at 22:17, Thomas D. Dean <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> In sh,
> 
>  do_first &
>  so_some_other_things_while_do_first_is_running
>  wait
> 
> The wait blocks until do_first completes.
> 
> Is it possible to do this in octave?  I don't need to interact with 
> 'do_first' or get any results from it.  I just need to do some I/O while 
> 'do_first' is running.
> 
> Tom Dean

hhhmmm ...
AFAIK there is no way to do that directly, but I think you could 
emulate that behaviour to some extent with parcellfun, e.g.:

c = address@hidden, @so_some_other_things_while_do_first_is_running};
a = {{args_to_do_first}, 
{args_to_so_some_other_things_while_do_first_is_running}};

parcellfun (2, @(c, a) feval (c, a{:}), c, a)

HTH,
c.