Well, actually it's not a race between multiple instances of Octave, but between Octave and unlink().
The following is enough for triggering the bug: $ touch foo3.m && rm -f foo3.m && octave foo2.m While the following works fine: $ touch foo3.m && rm -f foo3.m && sleep 1 && octave foo2.m Forwarded to Octave bug mailing list: https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-October/009607.html Best, -- Sébastien Villemot -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
