Hi Paul,

thanks for your input -- do you have a link to such reports?

Looks like Eric Ludlam in on the case at Mathworks, so there's some hope
for a solution.

Until we know more, the great mystery is why the shell would behave any
differently inside of emacs vs outside of it.

Peter

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> In reading the comments this appears to be a Matlab bug; more precisely, a
> bug in the JVM shipped with Matlab. I saw reports that the problem is fixed
> by using a free JVM rather than Matlab's bundled one, so perhaps you can
> suggest this to other Matlab users. It could be difficult to solve the
> underlying problem (whatever it is) without more cooperation from the
> Matlab developers.
>