Re: Representing the Brownian rotational diffusion tensor in Molmol, etc. -- October 29, 2006 - 15:26

On 10/30/06, Douglas Kojetin <douglas.kojetin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Actually, the same thing happens on my end in Tcl/Tk, but I only need/
> use the pipe while the script is running.  Perhaps using a named pipe
> will resolve the problem?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe

I haven't played with named pipes and fifos for while.  The approach
will result in many fifos though.  It would be preferable if there was
another way, which is cross-platform compatible, of preventing PyMOL
from terminating.  If there isn't a method currently built into PyMOL
to enable persistence after the pipe closes, the developers may be
able to help.  As PyMOL is open source, there should be a way of
enabling this through a command-line flag or otherwise.

I've looked at the PyMOL sources to try to track down where this
occurs, but as I'm not familiar with the code I haven't gotten to far.
The 'layer0' to 'layer5' directories are a bit confusing, I've been
bouncing around chasing backwards from the file 'layer5/main.c' which
contains the statement:

   printf(" PyMOL: normal program termination.\n");


Edward