From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Dec 6 15:53:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from Daffy.timing.com (daffy.timing.com [206.168.13.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D71DD37B405 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:53:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from brain.timing.com (brain.timing.com [206.168.13.195]) by Daffy.timing.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB6NrYS30489; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:53:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jhein@timing.com) Received: (from jhein@localhost) by brain.timing.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id fB6NrYe88934; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:53:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from jhein@brain.timing.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15376.1278.282366.586659@brain.timing.com> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 16:53:34 -0700 From: John E Hein To: Chris Smith Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Matlab 12.1 on 4.4-stable In-Reply-To: <3C100184.12C988C8@swri.org> References: <3C100184.12C988C8@swri.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.95 under Emacs 20.7.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Chris Smith wrote at 17:38 -0600 on Dec 6: > Hello, > > I've read a several postings in the archives on this issue, > but have not seen a solution. I have installed the linux > version of Matlab 12.1 under 4.4 stable. The problem i am > seeing is that matlab cannot exit. It seems to leave several > threads in limbo. If you 'ln -s /dev/null /dev/ptmx', you will be able to exit, but you won't be able to use the unix() and ! commands (you mention in your original email that they work fine). Basically without the fake /dev/ptmx, I see the same behavior as you. With it, I can quit, but can't use unix() and ! to run external commands. It's a tradeoff. Which do you want more... to exit cleanly without having to kill procs or to be able to run external commands? I don't know how easy it will be to fix this without support for Unix 98 ptys in the FreeBSD kernel. See the thread (can't quit matlab 12.1...) back on 8/8/01 and 8/9/01, particularly message-id <15218.38651.258849.4333@brain.timing.com>. > Has anyone solved this problem or have any suggestions how > to? Not that I'm aware of. It will take someone to implement the missing ioctls to really fix it (see the Aug thread). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message