From help-request at octave dot org Sat Dec 24 05:39:22 2005
Subject: politeness, good programming style, and pipes
From: Brian Blais <bblais at bryant dot edu>
To: help at octave dot org
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:33:52 -0500

Hello,

I was wondering what the proper way to handle the closing of pipes is.  If I open up
a pipe to another program (using popen or popen2), and intend on always keeping it 
alive until octave actually exists, should I take care of closing it myself or will
this happen automagically when octave exits?  Should I use atexit() to take care of
the closing of this pipe?  What does octave do with gnuplot for such a case?

		thanks,


			Brian Blais

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