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| -rw-r--r-- | src/window.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/window.c b/src/window.c index 15024f6..8955919 100644 --- a/src/window.c +++ b/src/window.c @@ -156,8 +156,18 @@ get_child_info (Window w) PRINT_DEBUG(("pid: %d\n", pid)); - /* The pids will hopefully be in the same session. */ + /* + The pids will hopefully be in the same session. + + XXX what's the use of this session check? + On some platforms (eg. OpenBSD) you get EPERM if `pid' is not in the + same session as ratpoison. This makes stuff like %p in winformat much + less useful... + */ sid = getsid (pid); + if (sid == -1) + return NULL; + list_for_each_entry (cur, &rp_children, node) { PRINT_DEBUG(("cur->pid=%d sid=%d\n", cur->pid, getsid (cur->pid))); |