make SIGUSR1 do nothing, so that killall -USR1 i3status will force an update

Sending SIGUSR1 will interrupt the nanosleep() and thus force a new
iteration of i3status’s output loop. The signal handler itself is empty.

Based on the question by ttjjss at
http://faq.i3wm.org/question/854/how-to-force-status-bar-update/

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/i3status.c b/i3status.c
index 503f763..87a793b 100644
--- a/i3status.c
+++ b/i3status.c
@@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ void sigpipe(int signum) {
 }
 
 /*
+ * Do nothing upon SIGUSR1. Running this signal handler will nevertheless
+ * interrupt nanosleep() so that i3status immediately generates new output.
+ *
+ */
+void sigusr1(int signum) {
+}
+
+/*
  * Checks if the given path exists by calling stat().
  *
  */
@@ -305,6 +313,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         action.sa_handler = sigpipe;
         sigaction(SIGPIPE, &action, NULL);
 
+        memset(&action, 0, sizeof(struct sigaction));
+        action.sa_handler = sigusr1;
+        sigaction(SIGUSR1, &action, NULL);
+
         if (setlocale(LC_ALL, "") == NULL)
                 die("Could not set locale. Please make sure all your LC_* / LANG settings are correct.");