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bug #61396: octave wrapper executable not working properly on Windows

Submitter:  Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
Submitted:  Thu 28 Oct 2021 06:01:53 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Interpreter Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Unexpected Error or Warning
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Closed
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Microsoft Windows
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Sat 30 Oct 2021 08:20:05 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Seems to be working for me now.

Closing as fixed.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Thu 28 Oct 2021 06:07:01 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I pushed that change to the default branch here:
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/e1b0ed07895b

Marking as ready for test.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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Thu 28 Oct 2021 06:01:53 PM UTC, original submission:  

As discussed during last online maintainers meeting, the `octave` wrapper executable doesn't work correctly on Windows.
The way a terminal waits for a child process on that platform basically makes it impossible to mimick the behavior of `exec` or `spawn` with `P_OVERLAY` on POSIX.

See also: https://wiki.octave.org/Online_Developer_Meeting_(2021-10-26)#spawn_with_P_OVERLAY_works_differently_on_POSIX_and_Windows

An idea was to get rid of the wrapper executable short term on that platform and replacing it by `octave-gui`. However, looking into it in a bit more detail, that makes building Octave on that platform awkward as long as we still need that wrapper executable on POSIX platforms.
Instead, I opted for implementing `octave_execv_wrapper` on that platform with `spawn` and `P_WAIT`. That makes the behavior the user observes when calling the wrapper executable very similar to the one on POSIX platforms. At the same time, the build system can stay untouched.

I'm mainly opening this report to explain why I chose to use a different implementation than the one we talked about. I figured that would be better here than in a lengthy commit message.

Markus Mützel <mmuetzel>
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