From f151f4c165086d267dfb4d48f48ce1f3381b7d6f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:36:53 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Detach the stdin write thread so that it is auto-cleaned up

---
 kitty/child-monitor.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kitty/child-monitor.c b/kitty/child-monitor.c
index 638f9f162..5be6fbfa8 100644
--- a/kitty/child-monitor.c
+++ b/kitty/child-monitor.c
@@ -231,7 +231,6 @@ start(PyObject *s, PyObject *a UNUSED) {
     Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }
 
-
 static PyObject *
 wakeup(PYNOARG) {
 #define wakeup_doc "wakeup() -> wakeup the ChildMonitor I/O thread, forcing it to exit from poll() if it is waiting there."
@@ -793,6 +792,7 @@ cm_thread_write(PyObject UNUSED *self, PyObject *args) {
     memcpy(data->buf, buf, data->sz);
     int ret = pthread_create(&thread, NULL, thread_write, data);
     if (ret != 0) { free_twd(data); return PyErr_SetFromErrno(PyExc_OSError); }
+    pthread_detach(thread);
     Py_RETURN_NONE;
 }