Package: ttyrec Version: 1:1.0.8-4 Severity: wishlist ttyplay -p is busywaiting with a 0.25 second delay, which is suboptimal since we have inotify on modern linux systems.
I tried changing the delay to 0.025 seconds, and found this makes ttyplay's playback much less blocky. For example, if I scroll around in an editor, the live ttyplay playback with the 0.25 second delay lags well behind the actual cursor position. (I suspect that nethack.alt.org also has this lag.) With 0.025 seconds, I could not see any lag. But polling so many times a second is not good. Thus, inotify. Adding support for it will be slightly tricky since it cannot be used in the case where ttyplay is reading from stdin. But I'm sure it will be worth the bother, doing away with the busy-waiting and letting updates be displayed instantly. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ttyrec depends on: ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ttyrec recommends no packages. ttyrec suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- see shy jo
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