dwm/selfrestart.c

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#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
/**
* Magically finds the current's executable path
*
* I'm doing the do{}while(); trick because Linux (what I'm running) is not
* POSIX compilant and so lstat() cannot be trusted on /proc entries
*
* @return char* the path of the current executable
*/
char *get_dwm_path(){
// Sorry non nixos users
return "/run/current-system/sw/bin/dwm";
}
/**
* self-restart
*
* Initially inspired by: Yu-Jie Lin
* https://sites.google.com/site/yjlnotes/notes/dwm
*/
void self_restart(const Arg *arg) {
char *const argv[] = {get_dwm_path(), NULL};
if(argv[0] == NULL){
return;
}
execv(argv[0], argv);
}