Re: No octave prompt (no error messages)

2006-12-08 Thread Robbie Gates
Albert Vos writes: at home and at work I have the same problem with octave under cygwin. In both cases I octave just quits without giving any output, no prompt, no error messages. Check also that your PATH includes /usr/lib/lapack, as octave appears to need the dlls found there. My default pat

Re: FYI - bash crash due to asprintf bug

2006-11-29 Thread Robbie Gates
reduces asprintf's use of realloc from quadratic to log-linear performance (ie. calling realloc every time you add a byte is bad, compared to doubling the buffer size every time you call realloc). Just out of interest, note that a size increase of 50% (i.e. new size = (3*oldsize)/2) has better p

find version 4.3.0, -path someNonDir -prune

2006-07-27 Thread Robbie Gates
Hi All, i am seeing strange behaviour with the most recent findutils update when using -prune with a -path which is an existing file which is not a directory. It seems the "pruning" is held over for the next found file. : 1030; mkdir C : 1031; touch B C/X C/Y D : 1032; find . \( -path ./A -prune