[mythtv] mythfrontend on ubuntu 17.04 testing X11 ICE problems

[Roger James]

On 7 February 2017 6:05:19 pm Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

>
> One problem with this patch is that it will spin the CPU for the
> wolReconnect idle time, which isn't very nice.
>

I agree that spinning isn't nice. But not pumping the event loop is worse. 
A sleep(1) in the loop would improve things.

> What exactly is the problem with using sleep()?
>

See the start of this thread

Roger