Bug#385976: strange (and annoying) delay on startup
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006, Robert Millan wrote:
> > My opinion is that whoever creates the environment variable which lists
> > the socket should make sure the socket is available before spreading
> > the news,
> It did, and at that time the socket was present. It's just that the socket
> is not there anymore.
If everyone would have done so, the current code wouldn't have to
special case the absence of the socket as a "try again" error. My
suggestion is to return a hard error instead and fix the applications
to wait for the socket to exist before they publish the environement
variable.
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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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