Re: [PATCH] SMM BIOS on Dell i8100

[Stephane Jourdois]

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On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 11:01:41AM +0100, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> Maybe this is better:
>=20
> diff -u i8kutils-1.2.orig/i8kbuttons.c i8kutils-1.2/i8kbuttons.c
> --- i8kutils-1.2.orig/i8kbuttons.c      Tue Nov  6 20:07:27 2001
> +++ i8kutils-1.2/i8kbuttons.c   Tue Nov  6 20:11:19 2001
> @@ -53,15 +53,17 @@
>=20
>      DPRINTF("exec_cmd: %s\n", cmd);
>=20
>      if ((rc=3Dfork()) < 0) {
>         perror("fork failed");
>         return;
>      }
> =20
>      if (rc =3D=3D 0) {
>         execl("/bin/sh", "sh", "-c", cmd, NULL);
>         exit(0);
>      }
> +    else
> +       wait(&rc);
>  }
> =20
> It get rid of the zombies and allows only one setmixer/auimix command
> to be active at a time...

Yup I did that on i8kutils-1.1, then reverted to system(), because I
removed the anti-repeat system, and used a slow mixer application. Then
the repeat was bad (sometimes slow, sometimes quick).
In fact, I don't really mind, as now I use aumix (and it is fast
enought).

Massimo, choose one please :-)

	Stephane

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