On 3 July 2016 at 16:33, Samuel Thibault <sthiba...@debian.org> wrote: > Felipe Sateler, on Sun 03 Jul 2016 17:31:14 -0300, wrote: >> I think the daemonization needs to move later as well: > > Why?
Because the usual protocol is "fork when ready". This way you can simply do stuff like: $ sudo espeakup && espeak hola || echo "failed to start!" And it works as expected. > Opening the sound card before forking doesn't look like a good idea to > me. Why would it be bad? Eg, pulseaudio opens the sound card before forking as well. > I prefer to use the pidfile presence as the notification of > espeakup being ready than risking forkish things :) I think the usual protocol is that the forking is done when ready. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
