On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:02:43PM +1300, David Phillips wrote:
> The child thread was created because execlp will not return if successful.
> The eprintf was placed after the call to execlp to catch any error, but the
> child continued to return a (closed) fds[0], resulting in a second slideshow
> being run by the child.
> 
> This commit fixes the issue by killing the child.
> ---
>  sent.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sent.c b/sent.c
> index fc5e389..88abe90 100644
> --- a/sent.c
> +++ b/sent.c
> @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ filter(int fd, const char *cmd)
>               close(fds[0]);
>               close(fds[1]);
>               execlp(cmd, cmd, (char *)0);
> -             eprintf("execlp %s:", cmd);
> +             die("execlp %s:", cmd);

Good catch.  eprintf() is totally misnamed here.  In general eprintf()
is not expected to return but this version actually does not exit.

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