Re: bonobo bug? Help needed

[Dietmar Maurer <dm vlsivie tuwien ac at>]

Elliot Lee wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
>
> > > > Is someone able to reproduce that delay?
> > >
> > > Are you running on some operating system that does not have a /dev/random?
> > >
> > > The ORBit in CVS needs to be able to get truly random numbers. The
> > > portable implementation plays with setitimer() etc. in order to generate
> > > these, and creating each new object requires these random numbers, so at
> > > least on my system creating objects using this portable genrand
> > > implementation requires around 50ms.
> >
> > I'm talking about a 20s delay (not ms)
>

I have just installed gnome/orbit on another mashine - still getting that random
delays!