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.
