On Wed, 23 May 2001, Scott Micciche wrote:
> I have a question surrounding blackbox's "sh -c" processes when
> launching from the menu. I'm not familiar with writing window managers
> and was wondering why these processes were necessary. I notice other
> window managers do not use them (fvwm, icewm, windowmaker, etc). Is
> there some way to eliminate these processes from occurring? Thanks in
> advance.
I have also wondered about it. One benefit of using "sh -c" is so you can
have multiple commands with arguments, pipes, output redirection all as
part of a blackbox menu [exec] entry.
>From looking at twm source, it appears to do the same thing.
As a workaround, I just added "exec " before the command I want to
start. (I am sure /bin/sh ran, but then the sh process is replaced with
the specified command.)
I guess it would be good to offer it without /bin/sh also, by simply
execing the command with its aruments (but no shell functionality
included).
Jeremy C. Reed
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