Tom;

I don't think it will ever take that long to print something.

Well, my issue is that here it takes as long as the next usage before it prints, that might be 10::hour.

 Did you run my example script? First usage gives me three lines of output, from there on 4 with the first chout line being the last chout call of the previous time I ran it. This is the latest Mini (+CNoise fix) in Alsa mode on the latest LTS of Ubuntu. cherr calls are independant from this, seem to get precedence, and work about like you described what I could expect.

I don't think that's right. Sorry if these exact symptoms weren't clear from my last post. Can
anybody reproduce this?

Kas.