time out for making socket connection

sample box authorization code that does not work for unclear reaons

Merge branch 'barry/fix-matlab'

fix a couple compiler warnings/errors (depending on compiler) for Matlab engine code

Sys: drop explicit type arguments from PetscNew() and PetscNewLog()

git grep -l 'PetscNew\(Log\)\?(' -- $1 | xargs perl -pi -e '
s@PetscNew\([^,;()]+ *, *@PetscNew(@;
s@PetscNewLog\(([^,;()]+) *,[^,

Sys: drop explicit type arguments from PetscNew() and PetscNewLog()

git grep -l 'PetscNew\(Log\)\?(' -- $1 | xargs perl -pi -e '
s@PetscNew\([^,;()]+ *, *@PetscNew(@;
s@PetscNewLog\(([^,;()]+) *,[^,;()]+, *@PetscNewLog($1,@'

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__SDIR__: remove usage of __SDIR__ from PETSc sources.

Merge branch 'barry/fix-minor-matlabs'