Re: [xmonad] darcs patch: spawnDescendantOn

Quoting Spencer Janssen :

I notice some use of /proc, that will fail under non-Linux, right?

Maybe. I based the implementation on the information here: http://www.steve.org.uk/Reference/Unix/faq_2.html#SEC17 which suggests that parsing /proc is the cleanest way when it works. If someone on a BSD could give a sample /proc/PID/status file, that would of course help.

Also, can we mostly avoid the need for all this by 'exec'ing scripts?

Some of it can be avoided this way, yes, and I believe that's what spawnOn attempts to do, in a somewhat hacky way. ~d