Bug#507461: lintian: internal error: command failed with error code 123
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 13:16 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "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.
A fair point; I did leap to a conclusion.
> It seems like something stranger is going on here.
Indeed, it would appear the delay is simply treating a symptom.
Adam
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