Re: [Help-bash] backgrounding a process sends it into a tailspin

[John Kearney]

Am 12.09.2012 23:07, schrieb Chet Ramey:

On 9/12/12 5:00 PM, Cook, Rich wrote:

I think that starts putting me in the woods.  gnuplot needs stdin or it is kind of useless to us

Well, then why worry about the problem of putting it in the background
anyway?  You can't read from stdin in the background.  If you just say
it won't work in the background, and attempting to start it in the
background is user error because it needs stdin, we're not having this
conversation.

i have no idea if this might help but you could maybe try
assuming it problem isthat stdin is gone you could try pipein stdin thorough something that can deal with it.
i.e. something like.
while true; do
   read -rN1 s
   echo -n $s
done |/usr/local/tools/gnuplot-4.4.3/bin/gnuplot.real "$@"

--