Vipsshutdown

Call this to drop caches, close plugins, terminate background threads, and finalize any internal library testing.

vips_shutdown() is optional. If you don’t call it, your platform will clean up for you. The only negative consequences are that the leak checker and the profiler will not work.

You may call VIPS_INIT() many times and vips_shutdown() many times, but you must not call VIPS_INIT() after vips_shutdown(). In other words, you cannot stop and restart libvips.