Stopping PI leaves a second process active

[georg.viehoever]

Hi,

I am running a ProcessContainer on a number of images using an ImageContainer. When I close PI using the red cross icon on the top left, the GUI terminates. Looking at the task manager I see that a PI process continues to run. Platform is Win7-x64.

Georg

[Juan Conejero]

Do you close PI's main window while ImageContainer is running? In such case, the bug is in the fact that you shouldn't be able to close the main window while a process is running. If I can confirm this then we have another critical error.

[georg.viehoever]

Juan,

yes, I am closing PI while the Image Container is running. I get a message about locked views, but I can proceed anyway.

Georg

[Juan Conejero]

I get a message about locked views, but I can proceed anyway.

That message is telling you that you're about to terminate the application in an unsafe way. While this is coherent with the way PixInsight has been designed (modularly), the bug is in the thread that remains live after terminating the core application.

That thread is the watchdog thread that controls execution of multiple instances of PixInsight (and in a near future, communication and data sharing between running instances). The watchdog should die when its mother core application terminates; I'll try to fix this problem as soon as possible.