From 5331c5bf84eafc077ec77979726c48f968b3f0c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Henrik=20Rydg=C3=A5rd?= <hrydgard@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2023 11:47:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Implement auto restart for Linux too.

---
 SDL/SDLMain.cpp | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/SDL/SDLMain.cpp b/SDL/SDLMain.cpp
index bb6fd39896..0a989aa419 100644
--- a/SDL/SDLMain.cpp
+++ b/SDL/SDLMain.cpp
@@ -192,6 +192,7 @@ bool System_MakeRequest(SystemRequestType type, int requestId, const std::string
 	switch (type) {
 	case SystemRequestType::RESTART_APP:
 		g_RestartRequested = true;
+		// TODO: Also save param1 and then split it into an argv.
 		return true;
 	case SystemRequestType::EXIT_APP:
 		// Do a clean exit
@@ -1400,6 +1401,10 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
 	if (g_RestartRequested) {
 #if PPSSPP_PLATFORM(MAC)
 		RestartMacApp();
+#elif PPSSPP_PLATFORM(LINUX)
+		// Hackery from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/207935/how-to-restart-or-reset-a-running-process-in-linux,
+		char *exec_argv[] = { argv[0], nullptr };
+		execv("/proc/self/exe", exec_argv);
 #endif
 	}
 	return 0;