Re: exec : typo in documents and erroneously terminates on native windows

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 14:30:19 +0900, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have execute exec on native windows (4.0.2) and Cygwin (4.0.1)
> 
> In the documents(help and manual)
> 
> *******************************
>      FILE.  For example,
> 
>           exec ("ls" "-l")
> 
>      will run 'ls' and return you to your shell prompt.
> *******************************
>           exec ("ls" "-l")
> should be
>           exec ("ls", "-l")
> (missing comma)

Good catch. Looks like it has been this way for years and no one has
noticed.

Does anyone use exec?

> BTW, octave termination of octave by exec ("ls", "-l") is an expected 
> behavior.
> However, octave erroneously terminates on octave 4.0.2 (32 and 64 bit)
> I attached message from Windows. (Sorry it is written in Japanese.)
>  
> Translation
>  Octave-cli is terminated.
>  Problems occurred and program does not work correctly.
>  Program is terminated by windows system.
>  If there is a solution, it is reported from windows system.
>     (Button [Terminate program])

Could be. A better test might be to use exec in a fork, except that fork
is not yet implemented for Windows. So exec is kind of pointless on
Windows as it is.

-- 
mike