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Javier
Javier on 27 Jul 2011
Hello.
I'm using a parfor loop,but sometimes I stop its execution with ctrl+c, so I would like to execute the command "matlabpool close" immediately in order not to leave the processes on. I have recommended to use onCleanup function,but I have read that I need to use it within a function and not in a script, and I've got a script, owe to that fact I wonder if I could do the same with a try/catch sentence, is it possible?
thanks!

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 27 Jul 2011
No. try/catch cannot catch a control-c .
I would suggest just converting your script in to a function: doing so is likely to be far easier than working around the issue.
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Javier
Javier on 27 Jul 2011
does the function onCleanup only work locally?
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 27 Jul 2011
The onCleanup function is invoked when the object it returns ("c" in this case) goes out of scope and is destroyed. Normally that happens when the workspace of the function is cleaned up in preparation for returning from the function, but if the object were to be returned or written in to a global or persistent variable, it might get delayed.
onCleanup runs whatever function it is handed. Note that that is _function_: you do not pass it a reference to a particular variable or object.

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Javier
Javier on 27 Jul 2011
I'm having got a problem, I have done what I told you, adding a name to the function but, it doesn't work rightly in that in matlab prompt does not appear the message "Sending a stop signal..."
I should set the instruction just before the last "end" of the function, shouldn't I?
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 27 Jul 2011
onCleanup() should go just after you have created the conditions that need to be cleaned up later -- e.g., just after you have opened the pool.

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