Re: crashes with octave3.2 when $HOME/.octave_hist is not writable

[John W. Eaton]

On 26-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:

| On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 18:32 -0400, John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 25-Oct-2009, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
| > 
| > | To reproduce do e.g:
| > | 
| > | $ export HOME=/
| > | $ echo version | octave
| [...]
| > You are getting this message when Octave tries to write the history
| > file and it fails because of permission problems.  I already fixed the
| > problem the development sources.  Now I see this:
| 
| Thanks for fixing the problem.
| 
| >   $ HOME=/ /usr/local/octave/devel/bin/octave
| >   GNU Octave, version 3.3.50+
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| > 
| >   octave:1> quit
| > 
| >   error: Permission denied
| >   error: ignoring octave_execution_exception while preparing to exit
| 
| Will octave3.2 return 0 back to the shell (as did 3.0?)
| 
| $ ( ( echo version | octave3.0 >/dev/null) ; echo $? ) 
| error: Permission denied
| 0

Yes.

jwe