Re: wxt and "persist", n-th iteration !

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Wednesday 06 June 2007 08:59, Timoth=E9e Lecomte wrote:
>=20
> If the user asks for 'gnuplot -persist', it probably means that he's going
> to use the interactive screen terminal...
> Anyway, there's no problem with GNUTERM=3Dpng or if the user don't use wxt
> at all. The child process will handle it fine, because it's exactly the
> same process as the parent would be if there were no "persist" option at
> all. Meanwhile, the parent process does nothing but waits so that we don't
> return to the shell immediately.

I guess I'm dense today.  I don't understand.
I thought that this whole parent/child split was because the parent
process had to be the one managing the plot window. =20

If the parent is doing nothing but wait for the child, why do we need to
split off a child at all? =20

Conversely, if the parent is needed to manage the plot window then how
can you allow it to exit when -persist is requested? =20


=2D-=20
Ethan A Merritt