Hi Jess,
We haven't worked out how to fix this either. We made a "brute" force wrapper but be sure to use only passive system calls (eg ls, find, etc)
function [status, result] = brute_system(command)
% [status, result] = brute_system(command)
%
% MATLAB BUG causes imporoer buffering from system command so here we
% attmept to fix the bug by
%
% Removing stdin buffering with stdbuf -o0
% Ensuring no random input from stdin with < /dev/null
%
% And in the event this doesn;t work, we rerun the command twice untill we
% get the correct reponse
newCommand = ['stdbuf -o0 ',command,' </dev/null'];
dblConfirmation = false;
cnt = 1;
while(~dblConfirmation)
[status1, result1] = system(newCommand);
[status2, result2] = system(newCommand);
if strcmp(result1,result2) && status1 == status2
dblConfirmation = true;
status = status1;
result = result1;
else
cnt = cnt+1;
fprintf('\n%-20s :: Command %s failed, trying again - Attempt #%d',mfilename, newCommand, cnt);
end
end
end
