On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 13:16 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
