Bump. Any specific problem with the patch?
It should still apply on top of master.

> this patch does two things:
> 
> 0. simplify the code by using posix_spawn()
> 1. unify the behavior of what happens if the post-lock cmd fails.
> 
> currently, if `fork()` fails, slock will die without locking the screen.
> HOWEVER if `execvp()` fails it prints a message to stderr (which the
> user cannot see since the screen has been locked already) and only exits
> the child while the parent locks the screen.
> 
> to reproduce:
> 
>       # slock some_bin_that_doesnt_exist
> 
> this behavior is inconsistent, if the idea is that post-lock cmd is
> _not_ important then we shouldn't `die()` on `fork()` failure either.
> and if we assume that the post-lock cmd _is_ important, then we should
> die on exec failure as well.
> 
> this patch assumes the latter and calls `die()` if `posix_spawn()`
> fails.
> ---
> 
> NOTE: if we want to assume the former (i.e not die if post-lock cmd
> fails) then `die()` can be replaced with `fprintf(stderr, ...)`.
> 
>  slock.c | 16 +++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/slock.c b/slock.c
> index 5ae738c..8afb7da 100644
> --- a/slock.c
> +++ b/slock.c
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <string.h>
>  #include <unistd.h>
> +#include <spawn.h>
>  #include <sys/types.h>
>  #include <X11/extensions/Xrandr.h>
>  #include <X11/keysym.h>
> @@ -376,15 +377,12 @@ main(int argc, char **argv) {
>  
>       /* run post-lock command */
>       if (argc > 0) {
> -             switch (fork()) {
> -             case -1:
> -                     die("slock: fork failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
> -             case 0:
> -                     if (close(ConnectionNumber(dpy)) < 0)
> -                             die("slock: close: %s\n", strerror(errno));
> -                     execvp(argv[0], argv);
> -                     fprintf(stderr, "slock: execvp %s: %s\n", argv[0], 
> strerror(errno));
> -                     _exit(1);
> +             pid_t pid;
> +             extern char **environ;
> +             int err = posix_spawnp(&pid, argv[0], NULL, NULL, argv, 
> environ);
> +             if (err) {
> +                     die("slock: failed to execute post-lock command: %s: 
> %s\n",
> +                         argv[0], strerror(err));
>               }
>       }
>  
> -- 
> 2.35.1
> 

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