replaced the simple fork and execv method of starting applications with a

more sophisticated method (mostly taken from K/OProcess, because we can't
use libopie in libqpe).
We can detect now, if apps can not be started.

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/library/global.cpp b/library/global.cpp
index d6ba84f..68a3a75 100644
--- a/library/global.cpp
+++ b/library/global.cpp
@@ -44,2 +44,3 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 
@@ -606,6 +607,20 @@ void Global::invoke(const QString &c)
     {	    
-	if ( !::vfork() ) {
-	    for ( int fd = 3; fd < 100; fd++ )
+        bool success = false; 
+        int pfd [2];
+        if ( ::pipe ( pfd ) < 0 )
+            pfd [0] = pfd [1] = -1;
+    
+        pid_t pid = ::fork ( );
+        
+        if ( pid == 0 ) { // child
+            for ( int fd = 3; fd < 100; fd++ ) {
+                if ( fd != pfd [1] )
 		::close( fd );
+            }
 	    ::setpgid( ::getpid(), ::getppid() );
+
+            // Closing of fd[1] indicates that the execvp succeeded!
+            if ( pfd [1] >= 0 )
+                ::fcntl ( pfd [1], F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC );
+             
 	    // Try bindir first, so that foo/bar works too
@@ -613,6 +628,34 @@ void Global::invoke(const QString &c)
 	    ::execvp( args[0], (char * const *)args );
-	    _exit( -1 );
+            
+            char resultByte = 1;
+            if ( pfd [1] >= 0 )
+                ::write ( pfd [1], &resultByte, 1 );
+            ::_exit ( -1 );                         
+        }
+        else if ( pid > 0 ) {
+            success = true;
+        
+            if ( pfd [1] >= 0 ) 
+                ::close ( pfd [1] );
+            if ( pfd [0] >= 0 ) {
+                while ( true ) {
+                    char resultByte;
+                    int n = ::read ( pfd [0], &resultByte, 1 );
+                    if ( n == 1 ) {
+                        success = false;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                    if (( n == -1 ) && (( errno == ECHILD ) || ( errno == EINTR )))
+                        continue;
+                        
+                    break; // success
+                }
+                ::close ( pfd [0] );
 	}
     }
+        if ( success )    
     StartingAppList::add( list[0] );
+        else
+            QMessageBox::warning( 0, "Error", "Could not start the application " + c, "Ok", 0, 0, 0, 1 );
+    }
 #endif //QT_NO_QWS_MULTIPROCESS