Auto-spawn in libspeechd questions

[Hynek Hanke]

Hello,

the autospawn in libspeechd is a very nice thing. It's implemented
as follows:

    g_spawn_sync(NULL, (gchar**)speechd_cmd, NULL, G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH | 
G_SPAWN_STDOUT_TO_DEV_NULL | G_SPAWN_STDERR_TO_DEV_NULL, NULL, NULL, 
NULL, NULL, &exit_status, &error);
    sleep(0.5);

1) Why is it necessary to sleep at all? Should not this be fixed in 
src/server/speechd.c?
If so, is one second enough?

2) As per Glibc reference, sleep() takes unsigned int as argument, not 
float.

Best regards,
Hynek Hanke