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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | src/actions.c | 25 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 11 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2001-09-14 shawn <sabetts@diggin.lamenet.tmp> + + * src/actions.c (spawn): set the process group ID and session ID + for the spawned process. + 2001-09-13 shawn <sabetts@diggin.lamenet.tmp> * src/actions.c (command): Gobble the whitespace between the diff --git a/src/actions.c b/src/actions.c index c963a1a..41d0149 100644 --- a/src/actions.c +++ b/src/actions.c @@ -857,18 +857,21 @@ spawn(void *data) * ugly dance to avoid leaving zombies. Could use SIGCHLD, * but it's not very portable. */ - if (fork() == 0) { - if (fork() == 0) { - putenv(DisplayString(dpy)); - execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", cmd, 0); - - PRINT_ERROR ("exec '%s' ", cmd); - perror(" failed"); - - exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + if (fork() == 0) + { + if (fork() == 0) + { + /* Some process setup to make sure the spawned process runs + in its own session. */ + putenv(DisplayString(dpy)); + setsid(); + setpgid (0, 0); + + execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", cmd, 0); + _exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } + _exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } - exit(0); - } wait((int *) 0); PRINT_DEBUG ("spawned %s\n", cmd); } |