From 5513b9100728c08789fb19d8cfc314a2c8dab876 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Léana 江 <leana.jiang+git@icloud.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:54:22 +0200
Subject: remove " &" and fix zombie processes

" &" was to avoid throwing an exception when the child process has a
non-empty exitcode. However, the error-throwing function is callCommand
and not spawnCommand, so removing " &" shouldn't change the semantic.

https://codeberg.org/xmobar/xmobar/pulls/698#issuecomment-1722323
> callCommand seems to be the closest new function to system, but there
> is a difference: it raises an exception if the child process has a
> non-zero exit code. To preserve the exact behavior would require
> something like spawnCommand (s + "&") >>= waitForProcess.

I was able to reproduce zombie processes with the following steps:
+ running my own xmobar configuration
+ spawning a command that is long running (sleep 10)
+ sending SIGTERM to the xmobar process
After doing so, the sleep command will continue to run.

This PR uses withCreateProcess, which will always wait for the process
to terminate, even when the main thread is asked to exit (SIGTERM).

Note that SIGKILL is not expected to terminate the children.
---
 src/Xmobar/Plugins/Monitors/Batt/Common.hs | 9 ++++-----
 src/Xmobar/Run/Actions.hs                  | 7 ++++---
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src')

diff --git a/src/Xmobar/Plugins/Monitors/Batt/Common.hs b/src/Xmobar/Plugins/Monitors/Batt/Common.hs
index 2c60155..31caabc 100644
--- a/src/Xmobar/Plugins/Monitors/Batt/Common.hs
+++ b/src/Xmobar/Plugins/Monitors/Batt/Common.hs
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ module Xmobar.Plugins.Monitors.Batt.Common (BattOpts(..)
                                            , maybeAlert) where
 
 import System.Environment
-import System.Process (waitForProcess, createProcess_, shell, CreateProcess(env))
+import System.Process (waitForProcess, withCreateProcess, shell, CreateProcess(env))
 import Control.Monad (unless, void)
 import Xmobar.Plugins.Monitors.Common
 
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ maybeAlert opts left =
     where
       mkShellCmd command = do
             selfEnv <- getEnvironment
-            pure (shell command) { env = Just $ [("XMOBAR_BATT_LEFT", show @Int $ round $ 100 * left)] ++ selfEnv
+            pure (shell command) { env = Just $ ("XMOBAR_BATT_LEFT", show @Int $ round $ 100 * left) : selfEnv
                                  }
-      runCmd c = do
-        (_,_,_,p) <- createProcess_ "maybeAlert" c
-        void $ waitForProcess p
+      runCmd c = withCreateProcess c $ \_ _ _ ph ->
+        void $ waitForProcess ph
diff --git a/src/Xmobar/Run/Actions.hs b/src/Xmobar/Run/Actions.hs
index cbc10c5..a9afed9 100644
--- a/src/Xmobar/Run/Actions.hs
+++ b/src/Xmobar/Run/Actions.hs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ module Xmobar.Run.Actions ( Button
                           , runAction'
                           , stripActions) where
 
-import System.Process (spawnCommand, waitForProcess)
+import System.Process (shell, withCreateProcess, waitForProcess)
 import Control.Monad (void)
 import Text.Regex (Regex, subRegex, mkRegex, matchRegex)
 import Data.Word (Word32)
@@ -26,11 +26,12 @@ type Button = Word32
 data Action = Spawn [Button] String deriving (Eq, Read, Show)
 
 runAction :: Action -> IO ()
-runAction (Spawn _ s) = void $ spawnCommand (s ++ " &") >>= waitForProcess
+runAction (Spawn _ s) = withCreateProcess (shell s) $ \_ _ _ ph ->
+  void $ waitForProcess ph
 
 -- | Run action with stdout redirected to stderr
 runAction' :: Action -> IO ()
-runAction' (Spawn _ s) = void $ spawnCommand (s ++ " 1>&2 &") >>= waitForProcess
+runAction' (Spawn btn s) = runAction (Spawn btn (s ++ " 1>&2"))
 
 stripActions :: String -> String
 stripActions s = case matchRegex actionRegex s of
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