Scott Lambert wrote:
There seems to be a well known issue that if LyX crashes that the
.lyxpipes files are not properly deleted and this causes problems. I
have created an automator script that deletes these. Could you modify
LyX's start up sequence to automatically delete these files, just in
case the program did not successfully complete its quit procedure?
This would make using pipes much more stable for the average user.
You don't quite want to do that. I have occasionally wanted to run more
than one instance of LyX at a time, in which case I have to deal with
the fact that the pipes are already there and the new instance won't be
able to write its own. But deleting them would definitely be wrong.
What would be nice is if we could get LyX to go ahead and delete them
before it shuts down. This won't always work, but I'll bet it would work
a lot of the time.
rh
