[Piuparts-devel] Bug#649335: Bug#649335: piuparts: limit output generated by commands being run

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andreas,

On Sonntag, 20. November 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Bad maintainer scripts can go havoc and go into infinite loops
> producing infinite output. Popen.communicate() happily buffers all
> this until the system runs out of memory.
[...]
> A patch that replaces Popen.communicate() with a limited read of
> 1 MB is available at
>   git://github.com/anbe42/piuparts.git fix/excessive-output

awesome!

Can you please increase that limit to 2mb before I merge the patch?! :)

The largest legitimate logfile on piatti currently is 
lenny2squeeze/pass/gnome_1:2.30+7.log with 1672360 bytes.


cheers,
	Holger