Package: wmfrog
Version: 0.2.0-1
Severity: normal
Src/wmFrog.c contains the following lines:
...
#define DELAY 100000L
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int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
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while(1) {
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usleep(DELAY);
}
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This makes wmfrog wake up 10 times per second and thus has a noticeable
impact on the power consumption of some systems. As far as I can see
wmfrog uses a polling mechanism because it has to interact with xlib and
get the output of a perl script. I'd like to suggest the following
alternatives:
1) Don't use system to invoke the perl script, but do it manualy using
fork and execve. This way one can attach to the SIGCHLD signal not to
poll ~/.wmapps. As the signal interrupts the process blocking xlib calls
can be used.
2) Use select. The perl script could be rewritten to pass data to stdout
and opened using popen. That way one can select on the perl fd and the
xlib fd.
Unfortunately I don't have the time to provide a patch at the moment.
(And sorry to say this, but the code seems pretty low quality ...)
Helmut
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.14 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages wmfrog depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxpm4 1:3.5.7-1 X11 pixmap library
ii wget 1.11.4-2 retrieves files from the web
wmfrog recommends no packages.
wmfrog suggests no packages.
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