Re: debian package 2.8.0-1

On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 09:27:05 -0500, Dale Alspach writes:
>I have now turned off every setting that seems to refer to sound.
>exmh will now open and run even if started as exmh &

that's good to know - i haven't had exmh set to ding for decades; 
i find it too distracting.

>I am not a developer, but it would seem that there is a design flaw or
>perhaps there has been a change in expected behavior from a subsystem.

not in the last 10 years.

>Making a sound is not a critical part of a mail program so it should not
>wait forever for an exit response from a child process that has no effect on
>continuing the program.

not waiting wouldn't really help much in this case, as we'd just
accumulate stuck braindamaged sound player processes. exmh expects the
sound player to do its job and return immediately; if the sound player
doesn't do that properly then all bets are off and i'd call that a broken 
player.

(as far as i can tell from looking at the code exmh fires up the player
in the background, but tries to catch the result - a combo that doesn't
quite make sense to me.)

however, i've just checked play (the sox wrapper), and it's fubar and 
simply doesn't run in the background (which is how exmh starts it).
try this:

play /usr/lib/exmh/drip.au &
no sound, no return, stuffed, your shell will tell you the process is stopped.

play -q /usr/lib/exmh/drip.au &
works, but it prints some nuisance error messages.

i'd recommend you change your sound cmd to play -q, or possibly even
better aplay (if running under plain alsa) or paplay (if you use
pulseaudio). i'll adjust the default play command for the next debian release.

regards
az


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