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| author | Bear <bear@bengtsson.win> | 2021-12-27 09:29:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Bear <bear@bengtsson.win> | 2021-12-27 09:29:58 +0000 |
| commit | 69262b01ced79c2d776fab9b889926d1816a1e7a (patch) | |
| tree | f304cd6fa8734e83a7772d07dc9b484781565155 /patch/selfrestart.c | |
Added DWM
Diffstat (limited to 'patch/selfrestart.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | patch/selfrestart.c | 69 |
1 files changed, 69 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/patch/selfrestart.c b/patch/selfrestart.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f733867 --- /dev/null +++ b/patch/selfrestart.c @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +#include <unistd.h> +#include <sys/types.h> +#include <sys/stat.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> + +/** + * Magically finds the current's executable path + * + * I'm doing the do{}while(); trick because Linux (what I'm running) is not + * POSIX compilant and so lstat() cannot be trusted on /proc entries + * + * @return char* the path of the current executable + */ +char *get_dwm_path() +{ + struct stat s; + int r, length, rate = 42; + char *path = NULL; + + if (lstat("/proc/self/exe", &s) == -1) { + perror("lstat:"); + return NULL; + } + + length = s.st_size + 1 - rate; + + do + { + length+=rate; + + free(path); + path = malloc(sizeof(char) * length); + + if (path == NULL){ + perror("malloc:"); + return NULL; + } + + r = readlink("/proc/self/exe", path, length); + + if (r == -1){ + perror("readlink:"); + return NULL; + } + } while (r >= length); + + path[r] = '\0'; + + return path; +} + +/** + * self-restart + * + * Initially inspired by: Yu-Jie Lin + * https://sites.google.com/site/yjlnotes/notes/dwm + */ +void self_restart(const Arg *arg) +{ + char *const argv[] = {get_dwm_path(), NULL}; + + if (argv[0] == NULL) { + return; + } + + execv(argv[0], argv); +} + |
