From 53a479f79a6c23bf1deea4165ad2ac0efbd8460c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kris Maglione <maglione.k@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 03:23:35 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Work around mawk bug that broke wmiirc.

---
 NEWS           | 10 +++++++++-
 cmd/wmii.sh.sh | 11 +++--------
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1287ecaf..02e9533a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,7 +7,15 @@
     * Dock windows act more like dock windows
     * Fixed some managed move bugs
 
-3.9b1:
+3.9.2:             
+    * Work around mawk bug that broke wmiirc.
+
+3.9.1:
+    * Workaround a dash 0.5.6 bug that broke wmiirc.
+    * Noticably speed-up python wmiirc startup.
+    * Disable static linking which breaks wmiir in glibc 2.12.
+
+3.9:
     * wmii9menu is now Xinerama aware.
     * Install READMEs to $(PREFIX)/share/doc/wmii/.
     * Documentation updates. Add wmiir.1, wmii9menu.1.
diff --git a/cmd/wmii.sh.sh b/cmd/wmii.sh.sh
index 8d10abfd..dfa04a86 100755
--- a/cmd/wmii.sh.sh
+++ b/cmd/wmii.sh.sh
@@ -194,19 +194,14 @@ wi_eventloop() {
 	if [ "$1" = -i ]
 	then cat
 	else wmiir read /event
-	fi | awk '/./ { print; fflush() } END { print "" }' |
-	while :; do
-		# Work around a dash bug.
-		# Only quit on successful read of a blank line.
-		read wi_event || continue
-		test -n "$wi_event" || break
-
+	fi |
+	while read wi_event; do
 		IFS="$wi_newline"
 		wi_arg=$(echo "$wi_event" | sed 's/^[^ ]* //')
 		unset IFS
 		set -- $wi_event
 		event=$1; shift
-		Event $event "$@"
+		( Event $event "$@" )
 	done
 	true
 }