Bug#598547: gnuplot: Gnuplot batch mode task stops when called from a backgrounded script

[Agustin Martin]

forwarded 598547 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3524062&group_id=2055&atid=102055
tag       598547 fixed-upstream
tag       598547 +patch
thanks

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 05:09:46AM +0930, Ron wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> $ gnuplot sweep-plot.script &
> [4] 17479
> $ ps xau | grep gnuplot
> ron      13484  0.0  0.2 318804 19300 pts/4    S    04:13   0:00 gnuplot
> ron      14136  0.0  0.0 256540  6732 pts/4    S    04:16   0:00 gnuplot
> ron      17479  0.0  0.0  77880  2112 pts/4    T    05:02   0:00 gnuplot sweep-plot.script
> ron      17481  0.0  0.0   8028   844 pts/4    S+   05:02   0:00 grep gnuplot
> 
> [4]+  Stopped                 gnuplot sweep-plot.script
> 
> 
> So this is either still not fixed in 4.6.0-1, or has been reintroduced again.

Hi,

I forwarded this bug report to upstream bug tracker. Upstream reacted very
quickly noticing that this is caused by a bug in BSD libedit and committed a
workaround,

http://gnuplot.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnuplot/gnuplot/src/plot.c?r1=1.138&r2=1.139

As a side note, upstream suggests us to give a try to improved gnuplot
internal readline (also suggests using GNU readline, not possible for us).

Regards,

-- 
Agustin