[xmonad] darcs patch: spawnDescendantOn

[Spencer Janssen]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 12:59:30AM -0400, 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.

> 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'd like some time to review this before anyone else applies it.

I notice some use of /proc, that will fail under non-Linux, right?

Also, can we mostly avoid the need for all this by 'exec'ing scripts?


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen