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authorAnselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de>2006-07-10 22:16:48 +0200
committerAnselm R. Garbe <garbeam@wmii.de>2006-07-10 22:16:48 +0200
commit439e15d09f6fa9271d3b49ef97194f0c80ebe161 (patch)
tree0f1abd8629f3fc226bb313ce29f00b6b8424f375 /util.c
parent2de59d0f0927cec656fc4b9f6fc9ea178fb01c1e (diff)
downloaddwm-439e15d09f6fa9271d3b49ef97194f0c80ebe161.tar.gz
added several other stuff
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1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
index 99842e9..435069f 100644
--- a/util.c
+++ b/util.c
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+#include "util.h"
 
 void
 error(char *errstr, ...) {
@@ -75,3 +80,21 @@ swap(void **p1, void **p2)
 	*p1 = *p2;
 	*p2 = tmp;
 }
+
+void
+spawn(Display *dpy, const char *shell, const char *cmd)
+{
+	if(!cmd || !shell)
+		return;
+	if(fork() == 0) {
+		if(fork() == 0) {
+			if(dpy)
+				close(ConnectionNumber(dpy));
+			execl(shell, shell, "-c", cmd, (const char *)0);
+			fprintf(stderr, "gridwm: execl %s", shell);
+			perror(" failed");
+		}
+		exit (0);
+	}
+	wait(0);
+}