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and subject line My mistake.
has caused the Debian Bug report #545776,
regarding xautolock triples timeout
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Package: xautolock
Version: 1:2.7-7.1
Severity: important
xautolock does not work as advertised. It is 3 times slow. For example,
the command "xautolock -time 1 <command>" should execute command after
1 minute, however, it only executes the command after 3 minutes. The
same happens when time is 5, and I assume any other value; xautolock
will triple the requested time.
Perhaps this bug should be upgraded to serious, or grave, because it is
potentially a security hazard. Many people use xautolock to lock their
computers after a specified timeout, and expect it to be locked after
the timeout period.
Here is a log which demonstrates the misbehavior of xautolock, and
proves my point. I have added spaces between commands for clarity:
w...@alpha:~$ cat tmp.sh
#!/bin/sh
date > ~/tmp.txt
w...@alpha:~$ date && xautolock -time 1 -locker /home/wk/tmp.sh
Tue Sep 8 20:38:14 PDT 2009
^C
w...@alpha:~$ cat tmp.txt
Tue Sep 8 20:41:17 PDT 2009
w...@alpha:~$ date && xautolock -time 1 -locker /home/wk/tmp.sh
Tue Sep 8 20:42:47 PDT 2009
^C
w...@alpha:~$ cat tmp.txt
Tue Sep 8 20:45:51 PDT 2009
w...@alpha:~$ date && xautolock -time 5 -locker /home/wk/tmp.sh
Tue Sep 8 20:47:18 PDT 2009
^C
w...@alpha:~$ cat tmp.txt
Tue Sep 8 21:02:18 PDT 2009
-Brandon
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The behavior I described above is not the problem that is causing
xautolock to take too long to lock. The error in my methodology is left
as an excersie to the reader.
-Brandon
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