From b6ad0a61ed70892047efb333235d565678b64a7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marco Ratto <marco.ratto@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 17:29:12 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] bug fix for empty global variables

---
 matlab/slaveParallel.m | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/matlab/slaveParallel.m b/matlab/slaveParallel.m
index fe28ad1ad..cc65fe562 100644
--- a/matlab/slaveParallel.m
+++ b/matlab/slaveParallel.m
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ while (etime(clock,t0)<1200 && ~isempty(fslave)) || ~isempty(dir(['stayalive',in
         % loads values for fblck nblck fname fGlobalVar fInputVar
         delete(['slaveJob',int2str(whoiam),'.mat']);
 
-        if exist('fGlobalVar'),
+        if exist('fGlobalVar') && ~isempty (fGlobalVar)
             globalVars = fieldnames(fGlobalVar);
             %         for j=1:length(globalVars),
             %             eval(['global ',globalVars{j},';'])