On April 27, 2015 11:31:22 AM CEST, Jochen Sprickerhof <d...@jochen.sprickerhof.de> wrote: >* koneu <kone...@googlemail.com> [2015-04-27 11:25]: >> On April 27, 2015 11:23:52 AM CEST, Jochen Sprickerhof ><d...@jochen.sprickerhof.de> wrote: >> >I'm spawning other process from st (dmenu and surf for urlview). >> >Without >> >checking the pid, st stops working if some other child finishes. >> >Without >> >WNOHANG it would hang as well. >> >> Weird, I thought the shell would catch those sigchlds. Do you exec by >Amy chance? > >Why should the shell catch it when spawning them from st and yes, I use >exec to spawn a process from st with a shortcut.
Ohh, I get it, sorry. waitpid and WNOHANG is not the way to go though. Use wait and check the pid against the shell's to decide whether to quit st.
