Re: [Gnuplot-bugs] Re: gnuplot cvs x11 terminal bug

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Sunday 18 September 2005 08:41 pm, you wrote:
> 
>>Is this more revealing?

> Well, no.
> That's a trace of gnuplot itself. But it's the auxilliary program 
> gnuplot_x11 that is actually crashing.  So all this trace tells us is that
> gnuplot is unhappy that gnuplot_x11 crashed.

Exactly.  To avoid that, it would be necessary to have gdb start 
debugging gnuplot_x11 as soon as it's executed by fork()ing gnuplot. 
There's a "set follow-fork-mode" command in gdb for that.