added patches to test

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(){
+    struct stat s;
+    int r, length, rate = 42;
+    char *path = NULL;
+
+    if(lstat("/proc/self/exe", &s) == -1){
+        perror("lstat:");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
+    length = s.st_size + 1 - rate;
+
+    do{
+        length+=rate;
+
+        free(path);
+        path = malloc(sizeof(char) * length);
+
+        if(path == NULL){
+            perror("malloc:");
+            return NULL;
+        }
+
+        r = readlink("/proc/self/exe", path, length);
+
+        if(r == -1){
+            perror("readlink:");
+            return NULL;
+        }
+    }while(r >= length);
+
+    path[r] = '\0';
+
+    return path;
+}
+
+/**
+ * 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);
+}