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

[Holger Levsen]

Hi Andreas,

On Montag, 21. November 2011, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> But that output is from multiple commands, I'm only limiting each
> individual command.

Ah. Then maybe keep it at 1mb so that looping packages reach that limit 
earlier?
 
> I also fixed the read() call, I need to do it in a loop as I may not get
> my buffer filled completely depending on the output buffering behavior
> of the command.

/me nods. 
 
> PS: that bug actually crashed my machine once :-) kernel got stuck
> because oom killer did not find any process left to kill

hehe. +Yup, running piuparts on the whole archive is not without problems ;)


cheers,
	Holger

BTW: could you delete merged branches please? (ie add-vim-whitespace) - or is 
that a mistake on my end?