[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #61926] Coding infinite loops in Octave

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #61926 (project octave):

I agree that this is a strange way to loop, but it should work as a way to
execute a script in a completely fresh Octave session each time.  It works for
me on a Debian system.

The OP tagged this as a problem with Windows.  Is fun.m in Octave's loadpath? 
Is it possible that the Octave's startup directory has been set to some
location other than where fun.m is located and that fun.m is not found?

However, in the original, the system command waits for the child to exit
before it returns.  So you'll end up accumulating Octave processes until you
run out of memory or the ability to execute a new process.  The following
works for me to avoid that problem.  I added the call to "pause" so that I'd
have a chance to kill the current process and terminate the loop.


## infloop.m

system ("echo 'pause (5); infloop; exit' | octave", false, "async");


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