Bug#507461: lintian: internal error: command failed with error code 123
"Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> My testing suggests that lintian may be filling up the filename buffer
> faster than file / md5sum can empty it. Adding a 1ms sleep (well, a
> select()), at the end of each iteration of the main processing loop in
> the collection scripts appears to resolve the issue[1], at the expense
> of taking over 30 seconds to check the package on a 1.8GHz amd64.
Why would lintian not just block when writing to md5sum (or rather to
xargs, which is what lintian is talking to directly)? xargs is normally
used with find, and find writes as fast as it can without any delay.
It seems like something stranger is going on here.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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