pkg/60849: [PATCH] wm/awesome spawn calls throwing UnixInputStream error

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>Number:         60849
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] wm/awesome spawn calls throwing UnixInputStream error
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 04 18:40:00 +0000 2026
>Originator:     Brian Gomes Bascoy
>Release:        NetBSD 11.0
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD idefix 11.0 NetBSD 11.0 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 30 15:23:12 UTC 2026 mkrepro%mkrepro.NetBSD.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:
When using Awesome WM Awful's Spawn API the following error is thrown:

attempt to index a nil value (field 'UnixInputStream')
>How-To-Repeat:
There are quite a few ways to trigger the error, for example by performing a call to awful.spawn.easy_async_with_shell
>Fix:
The issue is already fixed upstream in the master branch (but still unreleased):
https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome/pull/4022/changes

3v1n0's patch updates /usr/pkg/share/awesome/lib/awful/spawn.lua with:
--- spawn.lua.orig      2026-10-04 17:02:00.808348915 +0100
+++ spawn.lua   2026-10-04 17:02:59.901458251 +0100
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@
 }
 local lgi = require("lgi")
 local Gio = lgi.Gio
+local GioUnix = lgi.GioUnix
 local GLib = lgi.GLib
 local util   = require("awful.util")
 local gtable = require("gears.table")
@@ -411,11 +412,11 @@
         end
     end
     if have_stdout then
-        spawn.read_lines(Gio.UnixInputStream.new(stdout, true),
+        spawn.read_lines(GioUnix.InputStream.new(stdout, true),
                 stdout_callback, step_done, true)
     end
     if have_stderr then
-        spawn.read_lines(Gio.UnixInputStream.new(stderr, true),
+        spawn.read_lines(GioUnix.InputStream.new(stderr, true),
                 stderr_callback, step_done, true)
     end
     assert(stdin == nil)