Bug#971895: lintian: hangs indefinitely on stable using lintian 2.97.0~bpo10+1
Hi Baptiste,
On Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 6:41 AM Baptiste Beauplat <lyknode@cilg.org> wrote:
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> The problem seems to be an interaction between the pipes, the process,
> perl and the kernel.
Perhaps it was an error to mix sysread [1] with print (as noted in the
documentation, even though the handles are different). Can you try
syswrite [2] in the three lines here [3] instead of print, please?
Kind regards
Felix Lechner
[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sysread
[2] https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/syswrite
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/-/blob/master/lib/Lintian/IO/Select.pm#L192-194
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