[xmonad] Issue 478 in xmonad: Restart could be made more robust

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Status: Accepted
Owner: nicolas.... at gmail.com
Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium Usability Component-Core

New issue 478 by nicolas.... at gmail.com: Restart could be made more robust
http://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=478

Currently xmonad uses a combination of argument passing and environment  
variable passing in order to give the current state to the new instance of  
xmonad.

These two channels are limited in size (and this is a practical concerned  
for me). Moreover using arguments pollutes the process listing and also  
leak some information.

I would suggest reading both pieces of state from a file descriptor instead.