* background.c (do_background): Use pipe() instead of less

portable socketpair().  Close comm[0] in the child.
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Pavel Roskin 2003-10-25 22:15:52 +00:00
parent d999b186f1
commit ec7f14f929
2 changed files with 5 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2003-10-25 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* background.c (do_background): Use pipe() instead of less
portable socketpair(). Close comm[0] in the child.
* wtools.c (mc_message): Fix argument expansion.
* background.c: Leave only code used when WITH_BACKGROUND is

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@ -41,11 +41,6 @@
#include "widget.h"
#include "wtools.h"
/*
* We currenlty only support one way of comunicating the background
* and foreground process by using the socketpair system call
*/
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include "fileopctx.h"
#include "key.h" /* For add_select_channel(), delete_select_channel() */
#include "eregex.h"
@ -55,10 +50,6 @@
/* If true, this is a background process */
int we_are_background = 0;
#ifndef HAVE_SOCKETPAIR
int socketpair(int, int, int, int fd[2]);
#endif /* HAVE_SOCKETPAIR */
/* File descriptor for talking to our parent */
static int parent_fd;
@ -120,7 +111,7 @@ do_background (struct FileOpContext *ctx, char *info)
int comm[2]; /* control connection stream */
pid_t pid;
if (socketpair (AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0, comm) == -1)
if (pipe (comm) == -1)
return -1;
if ((pid = fork ()) == -1)
@ -129,6 +120,7 @@ do_background (struct FileOpContext *ctx, char *info)
if (pid == 0) {
int nullfd;
close (comm[0]);
parent_fd = comm[1];
we_are_background = 1;