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Re: SGI 9.1 errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Apr 17 16:43:57 2002
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:43:54 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
I think I found the cause of the esd socket file complaint. Where esd is
spawned in the esd library's esd_open_sound() function, they replaced the
old questionable code that waited for a signal from the child, with new
questionable code that uses a pipe. But where it used to wait up to 10
seconds for the signal, it now waits for only 100 milliseconds to read
something from the pipe. Given that we run esd with dustbuster, which
adds a bit of overhead, plus the snail-like performance of our SGI's,
100 msecs is not enough time to wait for the process to be started.
I'll submit a patch to increase the timeout.
Bob
