Re: disabling 'insecure' parts of gnuplot file

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

Edward Peschko wrote:

> Anyway, I would like to therefore disable anything that gnuplot can do outside of 
> drawing graphs, for example:
> 
> !rm -rf /

No way of doing that is foreseen inside gnuplot --- you'll have to use
external means, e.g. run it in a chroot or jail environment.

> How can you make it so that the plot statement refers to itself, ie a dataset in the 
> file itself?

See 'help plot datafile special'