From 180869f43911a5535e2706b983e63a007acd79da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: swenzel <sandro.wenzel@cern.ch>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:31:26 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] HepMC: Remove default backgrounding mode

Removing the default & at the end of HepMC child processes.
This should not be needed and actually leads to children be executed
outside of the process tree of simulation. This in turn corrupts
CPU and MEM monitoring in O2DPG MC workflows.

Changing default for now but maybe we can eventually get rid of this completely.
---
 Generators/include/Generators/GeneratorFileOrCmdParam.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Generators/include/Generators/GeneratorFileOrCmdParam.h b/Generators/include/Generators/GeneratorFileOrCmdParam.h
index d4023d01e6ac2..72bc3d00141fe 100644
--- a/Generators/include/Generators/GeneratorFileOrCmdParam.h
+++ b/Generators/include/Generators/GeneratorFileOrCmdParam.h
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct GeneratorFileOrCmdParam : public o2::conf::ConfigurableParamHelper<Genera
   std::string seedSwitch = "-s";
   std::string bMaxSwitch = "-b";
   std::string nEventsSwitch = "-n";
-  std::string backgroundSwitch = "&";
+  std::string backgroundSwitch = ""; // SW: might not be relevant at all since we launch inside fork+exec
   O2ParamDef(GeneratorFileOrCmdParam, "GeneratorFileOrCmd");
 };