Merge branch 'master' into tree

i3bar/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
+v0.6
+=====
+- Add manpage
+- Implement hide-on-modifier
+- Custom colors can be set from the commandline
+- Use double-buffering
 - Bugfix: Correctly render long text
 - Bugfix: Don't segfault on SIGCHILD
-- Implement hide-on-modifier
+- Bugfix: Double-fork() to avoid zombies
-- Use double-buffering
+- Some minor bugfixes
-
 
 v0.5
 =====

i3bar/doc/i3bar.man

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 i3bar(1)
 ========
 Axel Wagner <mail+i3bar@merovius.de>
-v0.5, September 2010
+v0.6, September 2010
 
 == NAME
 

i3bar/src/child.c

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <signal.h>
-#include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 #include <string.h>
@@ -101,29 +100,19 @@ void child_sig_cb(struct ev_loop *loop, ev_child *watcher, int revents) {
 /*
  * Start a child-process with the specified command and reroute stdin.
  * We actually start a $SHELL to execute the command so we don't have to care
- * about arguments and such.
+ * about arguments and such
- * We also double-fork() to avoid zombies and pass the pid of the child through a
- * temporary pipe back to i3bar
  *
  */
 void start_child(char *command) {
     child_pid = 0;
     if (command != NULL) {
-        int fd[2], tmp[2];
+        int fd[2];
-        /* This pipe will be used to communicate between e.g. i3status and i3bar */
         pipe(fd);
-        /* We also need this temporary pipe to get back the pid of i3status */
+        child_pid = fork();
-        pipe(tmp);
+        switch (child_pid) {
-        switch (fork()) {
             case -1:
                 ELOG("Couldn't fork()\n");
                 exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-            case 0:
-                /* Double-fork(), so the child gets reparented to init */
-                switch(child_pid = fork()) {
-                    case -1:
-                        ELOG("Couldn't fork() twice\n");
-                        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
             case 0:
                 /* Child-process. Reroute stdout and start shell */
                 close(fd[0]);
@@ -137,31 +126,15 @@ void start_child(char *command) {
 
                 execl(shell, shell, "-c", command, (char*) NULL);
                 return;
-                    default:
-                        /* Temporary parent. We tell i3bar about the pid of i3status and exit */
-                        write(tmp[1], &child_pid, sizeof(int));
-                        close(tmp[0]);
-                        close(tmp[1]);
-                        exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
-                    }
             default:
                 /* Parent-process. Rerout stdin */
                 close(fd[1]);
 
                 dup2(fd[0], STDIN_FILENO);
 
-                /* We also need to get the pid of i3status from the temporary pipe */
-                size_t rec = 0;
-                while (rec < sizeof(int)) {
-                    rec += read(tmp[0], &child_pid, sizeof(int) - rec);
-                }
-                /* The temporary pipe is no longer needed */
-                close(tmp[0]);
-                close(tmp[1]);
                 break;
         }
     }
-    wait(0);
 
     /* We set O_NONBLOCK because blocking is evil in event-driven software */
     fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
@@ -184,6 +157,7 @@ void start_child(char *command) {
  */
 void kill_child() {
     if (child_pid != 0) {
+        kill(child_pid, SIGCONT);
         kill(child_pid, SIGTERM);
     }
     cleanup();