[xmonad] darcs patch: spawnDescendantOn
Adam Vogt
vogt.adam at gmail.com
Wed Sep 2 22:17:31 EDT 2009
* On Tuesday, September 01 2009, wagnerdm at seas.upenn.edu wrote:
>Tue Sep 1 00:42:18 EDT 2009 Daniel Wagner <daniel at wagner-home.com>
> * add spawnOn-alikes that watch for child processes
>
> spawnOn is insufficient because many programs are simply shell
>scripts wrapping the real application. This adds some functions that
>watch for child processes, which treats these scripts properly.
>Notably, launchers like dmenu are dealt with this way.
I think most of the time people would prefer spawnDescendantOn to
spawnOn. Perhaps the shorter names should go to the new child
finding versions?
--
Adam
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