Bug#505270: [Splashy-devel] Bug#505270: Delay

2009-01-06 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Tim, > I think a delay of 1 second is probably five times too long even in > worst cases, but if I didn't make mistakes in the code, it won't matter > because a signal will arrive quickly. Exactly, so it wouldn't hurt to increase it. > Slower machines don't necessarily make the race condition

Bug#505270: Delay

2009-01-06 Thread Tim Richardson
I think a delay of 1 second is probably five times too long even in worst cases, but if I didn't make mistakes in the code, it won't matter because a signal will arrive quickly. Slower machines don't necessarily make the race condition more likely to occur. The "window of error" is only the exec