diff --git a/CHANGES-FCGID b/CHANGES-FCGID
index e980d43..2e01c2c 100644
--- a/CHANGES-FCGID
+++ b/CHANGES-FCGID
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@
      when in FCGI_AUTHORIZER mode, as the auth hook functions already
      treat Location headers returned by scripts as an error since
      redirections are not meaningful in this mode.  [Chris Darroch]
+     
+  *) Avoid a 1 s sleep when spawning wrapper. PR 54000
+  [Bartosz Kwitniewski <zerg2000-apachebug astral org pl>]
 
 Changes with mod_fcgid 2.3.7
 
diff --git a/modules/fcgid/fcgid_pm_unix.c b/modules/fcgid/fcgid_pm_unix.c
index 18906b5..3c4fee0 100644
--- a/modules/fcgid/fcgid_pm_unix.c
+++ b/modules/fcgid/fcgid_pm_unix.c
@@ -486,7 +486,7 @@
             ap_log_rerror(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_WARNING, rv, r,
                           "mod_fcgid: can't get notify from process manager");
             result = rv;
-        } else if( nbytes!=PROCMGR_PROC_CREATED )
+        } else if( notifybyte!=PROCMGR_PROC_CREATED )
             result = APR_CHILD_NOTDONE;
     }