Re: wxt file-save oddity

[sfeam <sf...@us...>]

On Saturday, 15 November 2014 08:32:38 PM Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> I meant "zombie", not daemon.

I don't see a zombie.  The original process really does exit.

> There must be some way of doing this without having to stop/restart a 
> thread in the process.

The problem does not depend stop/start of a thread.
It acts the same even if gnuplot is built in single-threaded mode.

The exit+persist procedure is to fork(), leaving a parent and a child.
The parent calls atexit() and exits.  The child is supposed
to maintain the plot window.  Both the parent and child can
be a single thread.  I don't say that this is necessarily the
only possible procedure or the best procedure, but that's the
way it currently works.

	Ethan