Re: listen() users

[Eric S Fraga]

At Tue, 15 May 2007 08:42:12 -0400, Paul Kienzle wrote:
> I would like to know if there are any other users of the listen() 
> function in octave-forge.  An incompatible version of listen was 
> recently added and we need to know how many people will be affected if 
> the change goes through.

I'm a little late in responding (totally unmanageable backlog of email
has built-up... :(). Apologies.

In any case, I *do* use your listen function a lot for communication
between Java and Octave. Indispensable, really!  Many thanks for it.

I do have a problem, however, and was wondering whether the code has
been updated or will be soon?  My problem is that I've recently moved
to 64 bits (EMT64) on Linux. Everything apart from listen works
perfectly. listen fails an assertion:

static void
process_commands(int channel)
{
  // XXX FIXME XXX check read/write return values
  assert(sizeof(unsigned long int) == 4);

which makes sense but limits listen's use to 32 bit systems.

Any help would be more than welcome!

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