Bug#507461: lintian: internal error: command failed with error code 123
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 15:40 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
>
> > One further observation, in light of an earlier question, which again
> > may be hiding the underlying issue. The scripts use Filehandle->new() to
> > create the pipe to file / md5sum, which is non-blocking by default.
> > Explicitly setting the handle to be blocking makes lintian much happier.
>
> Oh! Yes, that would do it. Nonblocking is definitely not what we want
> here.
It also explains why the delay appeared to fix the problem, as it would
have allowed the spawned process to read some more data.
I've just committed a fix; thanks for the help towards finding the
problem. :)
Regards,
Adam
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