Auto-spawn in libspeechd questions

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 10:00:07PM EST, Hynek Hanke wrote:
> 
> 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?

That was a quick hack to ensure the speech server was ready by the time the 
client was ready to attempt a connection to the server.

> If so, is one second enough?

Ultimately I think it is system dependant. However to truely solve this, we 
would need to use a mechanism that can report back when the server is ready to 
accept connections.

> 2) As per Glibc reference, sleep() takes unsigned int as argument,
> not float.
Fair call, but it worked and works, and I thought 1 second was too long a wait.

Luke