commit 62a491e36d493bf4585b348a4c28c5ed9bd3ea4e
from: a@null <unknown>
date: Fri Dec 12 19:55:03 2008 UTC

re-applied Neale's spawn patch, credited Neale in LICENSE

commit - 0b5dcf229f64a23438e6ef5929d78b7f9bd48355
commit + 62a491e36d493bf4585b348a4c28c5ed9bd3ea4e
blob - 9138fe2af9c194afd33aa89fe0d5f4fc60b5bf46
blob + fa47bd56fb5dd27e442c40c220d5e8fb8d81802f
--- LICENSE
+++ LICENSE
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ MIT/X Consortium License
 © 2007-2008 Enno Gottox Boland <gottox at s01 dot de>
 © 2007-2008 Peter Hartlich <sgkkr at hartlich dot com>
 © 2008 Martin Hurton <martin dot hurton at gmail dot com>
+© 2008 Neale Pickett <neale dot woozle dot org>
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
 copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
blob - b11cb00abf5682d4f11c117cd16a8fb9718a5c28
blob + 2e14579248b91bf06f88e20f63082de679fc47d5
--- README
+++ README
@@ -38,11 +38,12 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g
 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
 like this in your .xinitrc:
 
+    dwm &
     while true
     do
         xsetroot -name "`date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`"
         sleep 1
-    done | dwm
+    done
 
 
 Configuration
blob - 9a4233fbcf80c556a2ddfd5cd50e999aa2354652
blob + 2875865eeed34b22bfba0912ef4ba2c3b201fdb6
--- config.mk
+++ config.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # dwm version
-VERSION = 5.3.1
+VERSION = 5.4
 
 # Customize below to fit your system
 
blob - dc63a0b75c32e369a2542579894393fde808b134
blob + d6dc4676e1a31cc69f18ccca4363fb8645b4b2d3
--- dwm.c
+++ dwm.c
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ static void setlayout(const Arg *arg);
 static void setmfact(const Arg *arg);
 static void setup(void);
 static void showhide(Client *c);
+static void sigchld(int signal);
 static void spawn(const Arg *arg);
 static void tag(const Arg *arg);
 static int textnw(const char *text, unsigned int len);
@@ -1340,22 +1341,24 @@ showhide(Client *c) {
 	}
 }
 
+
 void
+sigchld(int signal) {
+	while(0 < waitpid(-1, NULL, WNOHANG));
+}
+
+void
 spawn(const Arg *arg) {
-	/* The double-fork construct avoids zombie processes and keeps the code
-	 * clean from stupid signal handlers. */
+	signal(SIGCHLD, sigchld);
 	if(fork() == 0) {
-		if(fork() == 0) {
-			if(dpy)
-				close(ConnectionNumber(dpy));
-			setsid();
-			execvp(((char **)arg->v)[0], (char **)arg->v);
-			fprintf(stderr, "dwm: execvp %s", ((char **)arg->v)[0]);
-			perror(" failed");
-		}
+		if(dpy)
+			close(ConnectionNumber(dpy));
+		setsid();
+		execvp(((char **)arg->v)[0], (char **)arg->v);
+		fprintf(stderr, "dwm: execvp %s", ((char **)arg->v)[0]);
+		perror(" failed");
 		exit(0);
 	}
-	wait(0);
 }
 
 void