From 91531deb6d2bd9a354b17d5aa61fe188e9801159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcos Pinto <markybob@dipconsultants.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 04:31:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] no more zombie processes when launching external apps

---
 src/common.py | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/common.py b/src/common.py
index b41591357..4c1b53463 100644
--- a/src/common.py
+++ b/src/common.py
@@ -186,12 +186,11 @@ def fetch_url(url):
     return None
 
 def exec_command(executable, *parameters):
-    from subprocess import Popen
-
+    import os
     command = [executable]
     command.extend(parameters)
     try:
-        Popen(command)
+        os.WEXITSTATUS(os.system(command[0] +" "+ command[1]))
     except OSError:
         import gtk