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[Kenneth Brody]

On 8/29/2013 1:00 AM, brian at aljex.com wrote:
> I have not dug into this code, I am just making a tangential remark.
>
> sleep() should be renamed voodoo()
>
> Ok in reality there are uses for sleep(), but sleeping to make sure a
> filesystem operation has completed is pure unadulterated (and
> inexcusable) voodoo.
>
> You either closed the file or you didn't. That's all there is to it. If
> you closed it, then it's ready, for anything, immediately. If you didn't
> close it, then no amount of waiting will ensure it's ready.

I think this is one of those cases where, many years ago, someone thought 
they needed to let the computer "catch up", and added a sleep (or 
equivalent), and then (by sheer coincidence) things "magically" started to 
work, and now they simply drop in a sleep whenever they have some problem 
with external programs using filePro-created data.

I do, however, recall someone saying that they had a repeatable scenario 
where the sleep actually did make things "work".  They did, however, agree 
that if that actually did fix things, it must be some network bug that this 
was working around.

-- 
Kenneth Brody