[systemd-devel] [PATCH] gnome-ask-password-agent: do not double fork spawned process

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, 2013-08-13 at 23:42 +0200, Michael Laß wrote:
> pkexec does not like being a lonely child:
> "Refusing to render service to dead parents."
> 
> Do not double fork when spawning the process by using the DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD
> flag. Instead clean up manually by calling waitpid.

It's cleaner to use the GLib child watch functionality.  See a similar
fix I did for gnome-shell:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=02e4726ba62659b4cdeca5274d76ba8f14edb768