Re: [Gnuplot-info] What signal to send to terminate gnuplot process?

[Robert D. <rob...@gm...>]

On Sat, Feb 3, 2024 at 7:40 AM Mirko Vukovic <mir...@gm...> wrote:

> I can shut down the process by sending the "exit" command.
>
> But I'd also like to send a signal (such as SIGTERM) to shut gnuplot down.

Probably a cleaner and system independent way to tell gnuplot to shut
down is just to close the socket through which commands are sent -- I
don't know for sure, but I suspect that gnuplot will terminate if the
socket is closed, since that is a widely used convention for
organizing interprocess communications.

Maxima (https://maxima.sourceforge.io) is a Common Lisp application
and it has some code to work with gnuplot for plotting; see
src/plot.lisp and src/gnuplot_def.lisp (I think those are the right
file names) to get some ideas about how stuff was handled there.

best,

Robert