From 48b0cb750cd7d01db1f7ee5067c3d80139a51de9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matt Davis <nitzmahone@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 08:54:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] (re)add post-watchdog-launch sleep to Windows async_wrapper
 (#5122)

fixed apparent race where subprocess appears to never start
---
 lib/ansible/modules/windows/async_wrapper.ps1 | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/windows/async_wrapper.ps1 b/lib/ansible/modules/windows/async_wrapper.ps1
index a4f90094837..54d820fe58b 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/windows/async_wrapper.ps1
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/windows/async_wrapper.ps1
@@ -324,6 +324,10 @@ Function Start-Watchdog {
     # FUTURE: use CreateProcess + stream redirection to watch for/return quick watchdog failures?
     $result = $([wmiclass]"Win32_Process").Create($exec_path, $null, $pstartup)
 
+    # On fast + idle machines, the process never starts without this delay. Hopefully the switch to
+    # Win32 process launch will make this unnecessary.
+    Sleep -Seconds 1
+
     $watchdog_pid = $result.ProcessId
 
     return $watchdog_pid