[Xmonad] darcs patch: zombie_children

[Spencer Janssen]

On Wednesday 24 October 2007 20:20:15 David Benbennick wrote:
> Wed Oct 24 18:10:16 PDT 2007  David Benbennick <dbenbenn at gmail.com>
>   * zombie_children
>
>   Second version.  This patch sets SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN, so that any child
>   processes that end will be immediately cleaned up.  It also waits on
>   all existing zombie child processes, in case they already exist.
>
>   I'm not too happy about waitAllChildren; it doesn't seem very Haskelley.
>   I was surprised that the following didn't work:
>
>     try $ forever_ $ getAnyProcessStatus False False >>= return . fromJust

Sadly, SIGCHLD doesn't seem to be a good solution here.  Certain parts of
xmonad collect child processes with waitForProcess, which throws an exception
if the process has already been collected.


Cheers,
Spencer Janssen