fix(process): safely exit forked child with _exit#1285
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Co-Authored-By: Michael Murphy <michael@mmurphy.dev>
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Replaces #1284
Though I cannot replicate it, this may fix some of the reports of the cosmic-app-library failing to open after spawning an application. And may fix the issue with NVIDIA GPUs having the validation error after spawning an application?
waitpidto wait for the PID of the initial fork in the double fork to exit.libc::_exitin that initial fork after writing the PID of the double-forked child. This should ensure it exits without potentially affecting the state of the parent process.After merging, this should be pulled in by cosmic-app-library, cosmic-files, and cosmic-launcher