rewrite main logic to properly stop the process.

e.g. ensure that it's children are also stopped. the code might be
linux-specific at the moment, but i don't quite know how to fix that.

go/qst.go

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
package main
import "errors"
import "flag"
import "fmt"
import "log"
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ import "os"
import "os/exec"
import "path"
import "strings"
import "sync"
import "syscall"
import "time"
/*
@@ -60,30 +61,23 @@ func main() {
	ext := path.Ext(file)
	fn, found := mappings[ext]
	if found {
		runAndWatch(file, fn(file))
	} else {
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error: No command defined for %s files", ext)
		os.Exit(1)
	if !found {
		log.Fatalf("error: no mapping found for `%s'", file)
	}
}
func runAndWatch(file string, cmdLine string) {
	// run command, if file changes (mtime) restart command
	runner := MakeRunner(fn(file))
	runner.Start()
	lastMtime := time.Now()
	cmd := ShellCmd(cmdLine)
	cmd.Start()
	for {
		info, err := os.Stat(file)
		if err != nil {
			log.Fatalf("Error: %s disappeared, exiting.", file)
		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
			log.Fatalf("`%s' disappeared, exiting")
		}
		mtime := info.ModTime()
		if mtime.After(lastMtime) {
			log.Printf("%s changed, rerunning", file)
			cmd.Restart()
			log.Printf("`%s' changed, trying to restart", file)
			runner.Restart()
		}
		lastMtime = mtime
@@ -91,38 +85,43 @@ func runAndWatch(file string, cmdLine string) {
	}
}
type RestartableCommand struct {
	Cmd  *exec.Cmd
	Lock sync.Mutex
	Name string
	Args []string
type Runner struct {
	cmd      *exec.Cmd
	shellCmd string
	started  bool
}
func ShellCmd(cmd string) RestartableCommand {
	return RestartableCommand{nil, sync.Mutex{}, "sh", []string{"-c", cmd}}
func MakeRunner(shellCmd string) *Runner {
	return &Runner{nil, shellCmd, false}
}
func (c *RestartableCommand) Start() {
	c.Cmd = exec.Command(c.Name, c.Args...)
	c.Cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
	c.Cmd.Stdout = os.Stdout
	c.Lock.Lock()
func (r *Runner) Start() error {
	if r.started {
		return errors.New("already started, use Restart()")
	}
	r.started = true
	go func() {
		c.Cmd.Run()
		c.Lock.Unlock()
		for {
			log.Printf("running %s", r.shellCmd)
			r.cmd = exec.Command("sh", "-c", r.shellCmd)
			r.cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setpgid: true}
			err := r.cmd.Run()
			log.Printf("%s finished: %s", r.shellCmd, err)
			time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
		}
	}()
}
func (c *RestartableCommand) Restart() {
	c.Cmd.Process.Kill()
	c.Start()
	return nil
}
func runShellCmd(cmd string) {
	log.Printf("Running: `%s'", cmd)
	output, err := exec.Command("sh", "-c", cmd).CombinedOutput()
	os.Stderr.Write(output)
	log.Printf("Error running command: %s\n", err.Error())
func (r *Runner) Restart() error {
	pgid, err := syscall.Getpgid(r.cmd.Process.Pid)
	if err == nil {
		syscall.Kill(-pgid, syscall.SIGTERM)
	}
	return err
}
func isFile(file string) bool {