This was my hunch too, glad someone got it before me though. This
patch fixes the problem with 5.3. Probably the same with the double-
fork version too.
Jeremy
On Sat 06 Dec 2008 - 11:14PM, yamada yohei wrote:
> I reprodeced this problem with dwm-4.7 and also dwm 5.3.1.
> Neale's spawn() change is not guilty.
> I think that fork() copy fd and pipe survive.
> Please try this patch:
>
> diff -r 94032e7d3943 dwm.c
> --- a/dwm.c Sat Dec 06 11:22:30 2008 +0000
> +++ b/dwm.c Sat Dec 06 22:57:46 2008 +0900
> @@ -1396,6 +1396,7 @@
> if(fork() == 0) {
> if(dpy)
> close(ConnectionNumber(dpy));
> + fclose (stdin);
> setsid();
> execvp(((char **)arg->v)[0], (char **)arg->v);
> fprintf(stderr, "dwm: execvp %s", ((char **)arg->v)[0]);
>
> --
> Yamada Yohei (?$B;3EDMNJ?) <yamadayohei_AT_gmail.com>
>
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