GLib is very careful not to "fetch" any children that it was not asked
to fetch. Thus, if awesome inherits some children, it does not reap them
and starts collecting zombies.
Thus, this commit makes awesome handle SIGCHLD directly: On SIGCHLD, a
byte is written to a pipe. The main loop reads from this pipe and
collects children via waitpid(-1). Unknown children cause a warning to
be printed. We might want to remove this warning if it turns out to be
annoying.
This commit adds 79 lines and removes 89 lines. Thus, this is a net
reduction in lines of codes. This is because previously, we gave the
list of still-running children that we know about to the next awesome
instance we a --reap command line argument. This was added so that
awesome does not get zombie children. However, this commit fixes this
problem and makes all the code for this 'feature' unnecessary.
Fixes: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886393
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Commit e54361a374 added code so that we pass the list of
currently running children across restart via an environment variable.
As Colin Walters correctly points out, setenv() is not safe in a
multi-threaded processes.
Thus, instead of using the environment, use the command line to pass
this information along.
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/1812
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
In Unix, so that a process can learn about the exit status of the child
processes that it started, children become zombie processes until the
parents collects their exit information. We use glib both for starting
and for collecting processes. However, when awesome is restarted, the
new instance inherits children, but does not know about them and does
not inherit them.
Fix this by explicitly tracking a list of running child processes and by
serialising them across a restart via an environment variable. The new
awesome instance can then watch for these child processes, but besides
that it ignores them and does not use their exit status in any way.
Thanks to Colin Walters for the hint with serialising the list of processes.
Fixes: https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/issues/1193
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Every .c file has to include the corresponding .h file first to make sure the
headers are self-contained. Additionally, this moves some unneeded includes
around.
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This option is no longer valid in modelines, so it has been removed from
all modelines using the following shellscript:
#!/bin/ksh
git ls-tree -r HEAD | cut -f2 | while read f; do
egrep -e '^(//|--) vim: .*encoding=' $f >/dev/null || continue
sed -E -e '/^(\/\/|--) vim:/s/:encoding=utf-8//' $f > /tmp/foo
mv /tmp/foo $f
done
Signed-off-by: Gregor Best <gbe@ring0.de>
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
This adds a small function which behaves exactly like libc's system(), but also
clears the masked signal set in the child process.
This is needed because libev 3.8 masks signals. :(
Signed-off-by: Uli Schlachter <psychon@znc.in>
Signed-off-by: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
