Bug#796608: espeakup: diff for NMU version 1:0.71-27.1

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Hello,

Christian Hofstaedtler, on Sun 03 Jul 2016 21:43:01 +0200, wrote:
> There's another minor thing I've noticed: espeakup takes a
> relatively long time to write it's pidfile after forking.

What do you mean by "long time"? seconds? minutes?

> I see that this is actually a Debian change,

Which change?

> but the changelog doesn't explain much about the reasoning behind
> it. Could you maybe elaborate on that?

I can only guess that you are talking about the 2 seconds delay of
espeakup.init, see the comment, which points at #775131, which says:
“the espeakup daemon calls daemon() before writing its pid file.”

Samuel