Re: gnuplot fails in background.

[Hans-Bernhard B. <HBB...@t-...>]

pl...@pi... wrote:

> I have a cgi responder written in C that works fine when running gnuplot 
> directly but if I add "&" to the command sting it fails.

Well, so don't do that, then!

Whatever did you hope to achieve by that, in the first place?

> Why is gnuplot failing when I detach the process?

Possibly because non-interactive shells don't support backgrounding 
interactive processes?