faster dmenu_run -f

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/dmenu.c b/dmenu.c
index 99db24e..a5af9d5 100644
--- a/dmenu.c
+++ b/dmenu.c
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
         setup();
         run();
 
-        return EXIT_FAILURE; /* unreachable */
+        return 1; /* unreachable */
 }
 
 void
diff --git a/dmenu_run b/dmenu_run
index 2747919..cf75b0a 100755
--- a/dmenu_run
+++ b/dmenu_run
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 #!/bin/sh
-CACHE=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"}/dmenu_run
-if [ ! -d "`dirname "$CACHE"`" ]; then
-        CACHE=$HOME/.dmenu_cache
+cachedir=${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-"$HOME/.cache"}
+if [ -d "$cachedir" ]; then
+        cache=$cachedir/dmenu_run
+else
+        cache=$HOME/.dmenu_cache
 fi
 (
         IFS=:
-        if [ "`ls -dt $PATH "$CACHE" | head -n 1`" != "$CACHE" ]; then
-                lsx $PATH | sort -u > "$CACHE"
+        if [ "`ls -dt $PATH "$cache" | head -n 1`" != "$cache" ]; then
+                lsx $PATH | sort -u | tee "$cache" | dmenu "$@"
+        else
+                dmenu "$@" < "$cache"
         fi
-)
-cmd=`dmenu "$@" < "$CACHE"` && exec sh -c "$cmd"
+) | read cmd && exec sh -c "$cmd"