I tried to debug a little bit in figinset.C to learn a little bit about what
the child process is doing. I tried the following:
if (pid == 0) { // child
char **env, rbuf[80], gbuf[40];
int ne = 0;
Display* tempdisp = XOpenDisplay(XDisplayName(0));
FilePtr mydbg("lyx_debug.txt", FilePtr::write);
fprintf(mydbg,"this is the child process\n");
mydbg.close();
...
As a result: I can't find any file lyx_debug.txt on any of my filesystems.
So I wonder and read a little bit more in the source. Direct following you
find that code-snippet:
// create translation file
sprintf(tbuf, "%s/~lyxgs%d.ps", system_tempdir.c_str(),
int(getpid()));
sleep(60); // This is from me ;-)
FilePtr f(tbuf, FilePtr::write);
fprintf(f, "gsave clippath pathbbox grestore\n"
"4 dict begin\n" ....
I have inserted the sleep-systemcall to get a chance of viewing the temp.
file. But: No file is present in the /tmp-directory nor at any other
location on my harddisks!
Why isn't it possible to create that file for the child process??????
Any idea?
Greetings
Claus
P.S.: Once more this mail - sorry but I forgot to cc it to lyx-devel!
