From 4418939dd9f3a7b3cfd3071234ed18ae86538f2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sin <sin@2f30.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 18:29:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Call _exit() instead of exit() if exec*() fails
exit() will also unwind the atexit() functions. This is bad
because if exec*() fails the process is in an inconsistent state.
---
st.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/st.c b/st.c
index 068fbb3..4499be6 100644
--- a/st.c
+++ b/st.c
@@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ execsh(void) {
signal(SIGALRM, SIG_DFL);
execvp(prog, args);
- exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ _exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
void
--
2.20.1