Kevin Tor writes: > I have a genetic algorithm that is running an old simulation model many, > many times. The problem is that this model, that I inherited, has > terrible graphics that do not clean up nicely. I have the model running > as a separate process (ext:run-program). This is my shortcut around the > poor graphics not cleaning up. The only way that I can get the model to > run multiple times is to spawn a new lisp listener that runs the model > as a PTY. This was a guess and I don't know why it worked. I can't > find any real information about PTYs and I have now realized that there > seems to be a limit on how many you can create. Do I have to "kill" > them or is there some way to "free" them up to spawn more. Any help > would be excellent. Thanks.
This is really a Unix question. Type this into Google: "Rich Stevens" unix pty and you should have enough info to get you going. Also, you might try looking through archives of comp.unix.programmer. Which Unix are you using, by the way? Craig Ludington
