Am 20.07.2013 20:23, schrieb David Henningsson:
On 07/19/2013 09:32 PM, Peter Meerwald wrote:
quiet mode allows to turn off PA's welcome message and the >>> prompt
pacmd waits 100 ms; if nothing is coming from the PA daemon, it is a new
version and we actively ask for the welcome message (non-quiet mode)
by sending
"hello"; in quiet mode, we send "hello quiet" to tell the daemon we
are not
interested in polite messaging and prompts
if something is received from the PA daemon within 100 ms, it must be
an old
version and we just continue as before; quiet is silently ignored for
older
PA daemons (nothing we can do, except filter the data coming from the
server -- no)
So in case of e g scripting, you have now limited the amount of
"pacmd"s you can execute (in serial) to 10 per second, which is IMO a
bad thing.
Btw, since we don't guarantee backwards compatibility anyway, using
pacmd for scripting is probably a bad idea in the first place...
Anyway, I'm also annoyed by the chattiness so I think the quiet
argument is good, but since pacmd can't connect to remote servers,
you don't need to wait 100 ms to try to detect whether the server is
old or new. A new pacmd can just assume a new server.
Pretty sure I used pacmd on a remote server by setting the PULSE_SERVER
env variable.
Best regards.
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