Hey all,

I know this is more of a user question, but I don't think I'm going to find
anyone that's going to be able to answer it other than here.

I'm using the GIMP to create custom graphics on the fly for a CMS by calling
the script from the web page through ASP.NET. Now, I wouldn't blame anyone
for saying, "Stop right there. That's your problem."

The problem I'm having is that I'm calling the script like this: gimp -i -b
"myscript" -b "gimp-quit 0"

Immediately upon firing up the script, the Task Manger reports creation of a
gimp.exe process. Then it forks another gimp.exe process. This one fires up
script-fu.exe, does its thing, dies, and kills the second gimp.exe. However
the first one stays running and will not quit.

On a server with hundreds of clients creating images with these scripts,
within an hour I can be left with a few hundred gimp.exe processes running,
which just about takes the server down!

So I have two questions:

1) Why is calling the script this way (which, btw, is the way it suggests on
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/) firing two gimp.exe processes
and only killing one of them?
2) On a server where a hundred of these scripts could be running at one
time, how does gimp-quit know which process to kill?

Thanks,

Roger Penn
Ignoramus extrordinaire
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