Re: [Gnuplot-info] How do I get gnuplot to exit, when it has been opened through a pipe from within an application?

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Levinthal, David A wrote:

> I can't figure out how to get the gnuplot process to terminate at the
> end of my application..The x window remains open and the process hangs
> at the end..  the fprintf's to stderr seem to imply all is well..but the
> xwindow is persistant and the application cannot exit

Of course it's persistant --- your code *explicitly* asked for that,
see:

>                         fgnuplot = popen("/usr/bin/gnuplot -persist",
> "w");

If you don't want the window to remain open after the pipe closed,
don't use -persist.  It's as simple as that.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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