From 6f7e8e668e50cce712e40a3cc3b5b0e8fd4db741 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Hahler <git@thequod.de>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 16:17:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] [RFC/WIP] call awesome_restart_delayed via main loop

Fixes `echo 'awesome.restart()' | awesome-client` to not display an
error about failed dbus-send, caused by awesome restarting before
replying through DBus.
---
 awesome.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/awesome.c b/awesome.c
index 4063a490e..4e8f529ea 100644
--- a/awesome.c
+++ b/awesome.c
@@ -524,12 +524,19 @@ exit_on_signal(gpointer data)
     return TRUE;
 }
 
-void
-awesome_restart(void)
+static gboolean
+awesome_restart_delayed(gpointer unused)
 {
     awesome_atexit(true);
     execvp(awesome_argv[0], awesome_argv);
     fatal("execv() failed: %s", strerror(errno));
+    return true;
+}
+
+void
+awesome_restart(void)
+{
+    g_idle_add_full(G_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, awesome_restart_delayed, NULL, NULL);
 }
 
 /** Function to restart awesome on some signals.