Re: gnuplot bug in Windows release of Octave?

[Michael Goffioul]

On 11/27/07, Olli Saarela <address@hidden> wrote:
> I see a considerable handle leak in pgnuplot.exe installed from
> octave-2.9.16-setup.exe (I wasn't able to run the fixed Gnuplot from the
> zip file).
>
> The command plot(rand(100,2)) leaks 947 handles. Process explorer shows
> a large number of thread handles even though there are only two running
> threads when pgnuplot.exe is idle.

Ouch!! You're right. There was a major handle leak in gnuplot shipped in
the binary packages. It's fixed now (ProcessExplorer now only shows the
2 running threads). I'll try to post a corrected gnuplot package on SF ASAP.
Stay tuned....

Michael.