On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 07:07:48PM +0100, Luis Cabellos wrote:
Hi, I was checking why there is two procces every time than I launch a console. I found than spawn uses /bin/sh to lauch applications. I think than to expecific commands is no need to double-fork,
I added the patch lo launch console without double-fork:
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What do you think?
spawnPIDf won't with applications that take arguments, for example: spawn "xset -b" I think the best solution is to add an 'exec' to your spawned applications: spawn "exec xterm" This is the shell's syntax to execute a program directly rather than fork. The current implementation seeks to balance all of these concerns: * users want to supply arguments to programs * users will find "spawn prog [arg1, arg2, arg3]" syntax unwieldy * we don't want to support a homebrewed argument tokenizer in xmonad * some users will want to use shell syntax in their spawns Cheers, Spencer Janssen