1 /* monitor.c - monitors the wmaker process
3 * Window Maker window manager
5 * Copyright (c) 1997-2004 Alfredo K. Kojima
7 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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13 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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19 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307,
30 #include <sys/signal.h>
34 #include <X11/Xutil.h>
35 #include <X11/Xproto.h>
37 #include "WindowMaker.h"
43 /****** Global Variables ******/
45 extern WPreferences wPreferences
;
47 extern int wScreenCount
;
52 int showCrashDialog(int sig
)
56 dpy
= XOpenDisplay(NULL
);
58 /* XXX TODO make sure that window states are saved and restored via netwm */
61 crashAction
= wShowCrashingDialogPanel(sig
);
65 wsyserror(_("cannot open connection for crashing dialog panel. Aborting."));
66 crashAction
= WMAbort
;
69 if (crashAction
== WMStartAlternate
)
73 wmessage(_("trying to start alternate window manager..."));
75 for (i
=0; i
<WMGetArrayItemCount(wPreferences
.fallbackWMs
); i
++) {
76 Restart(WMGetFromArray(wPreferences
.fallbackWMs
, i
), False
);
79 wfatal(_("failed to start alternate window manager. Aborting."));
83 else if (crashAction
== WMAbort
)
90 int MonitorLoop(int argc
, char **argv
)
93 char **child_argv
= wmalloc(sizeof(char*)*(argc
+2));
98 for (i
= 0; i
< argc
; i
++)
99 child_argv
[i
]= argv
[i
];
100 child_argv
[i
++]= "--for-real";
105 last_start
= time(NULL
);
107 /* Start Window Maker */
111 execvp(child_argv
[0], child_argv
);
112 wsyserror(_("Error respawning Window Maker"));
117 wsyserror(_("Error respawning Window Maker"));
122 if ((exited
=waitpid(-1, &status
, 0)) < 0)
124 wsyserror(_("Error during monitoring of Window Maker process."));
128 } while (exited
!= pid
);
133 child_argv
[argc
]= "--for-real-";
135 /* Check if the wmaker process exited due to a crash */
136 if (WIFSIGNALED(status
) &&
137 (WTERMSIG(status
) == SIGSEGV
||
138 WTERMSIG(status
) == SIGBUS
||
139 WTERMSIG(status
) == SIGILL
||
140 WTERMSIG(status
) == SIGABRT
||
141 WTERMSIG(status
) == SIGFPE
))
143 /* If so, we check when was the last restart.
144 * If it was less than 3s ago, it's a bad sign, so we show
145 * the crash panel and ask the user what to do */
146 if (time(NULL
) - last_start
< 3)
148 if (showCrashDialog(WTERMSIG(status
)) == 0) {
152 wwarning(_("Window Maker exited due to a crash (signal %i) and will be restarted."),