feature request: libspeechd should reconnect to sd

[Halim Sahin]

Hi,
On Mo, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:27:00 +0100, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Hynek Hanke wrote:
> > It is the application who needs to decide what to do in such a case.
> 
> Yes, I agree with this conclusion.  It is done the same way in the case
> of the Python library and the Orca backend.

Well then my question is 
How can I check that the server is still alive?
a small test:
if (spd_say(......) <0)
do_some_thing();

result:
The the client app crashs and never gets a return vallue of -1!
So I need a working solution to check  that the connection is ok.
What can I do?
Thanks
halim