From 000acfe0fd6fa0d6f6e284676af079e8ef9397d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brenden Matthews <brenden@diddyinc.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:05:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Only ever fork() once.

---
 src/conky.c | 12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/conky.c b/src/conky.c
index eef6791c..8e29c224 100644
--- a/src/conky.c
+++ b/src/conky.c
@@ -353,6 +353,10 @@ static unsigned long total_run_times;
 /* fork? */
 static int fork_to_background;
 
+/* set to 0 after the first time conky is run, so we don't fork again after the
+ * first forking */
+static int first_pass = 1;
+
 static int cpu_avg_samples, net_avg_samples, diskio_avg_samples;
 
 /* filenames for output */
@@ -5615,7 +5619,7 @@ void initialisation(int argc, char **argv) {
 
 	while (1) {
 		int c = getopt_long(argc, argv, getopt_string, longopts, NULL);
-		static int startup_pause = 0;
+		int startup_pause;
 
 		if (c == -1) {
 			break;
@@ -5678,7 +5682,7 @@ void initialisation(int argc, char **argv) {
 				break;
 #endif /* X11 */
 			case 'p':
-				if (startup_pause == 0) {
+				if (first_pass) {
 					startup_pause = atoi(optarg);
 					sleep(startup_pause);
 				}
@@ -5704,7 +5708,7 @@ void initialisation(int argc, char **argv) {
 	}
 	global_text = NULL;
 	/* fork */
-	if (fork_to_background) {
+	if (fork_to_background && first_pass) {
 		int pid = fork();
 
 		switch (pid) {
@@ -5912,6 +5916,8 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	initialisation(argc, argv);
 
+	first_pass = 0; /* don't ever call fork() again */
+
 	main_loop();
 
 #if defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__FreeBSD_kernel__)