Bug#834912: libfile-tee-perl: FTBFS too much often (Failed 1/2 test programs)

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Tue Jan 3 14:10:22 UTC 2017


Control: tag -1 patch

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 06:33:16PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 20:25:24 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > Looks like https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=101278 ;
> > quoting Slaven:
> > 
> >   So it seems that the completion of the fork() call is quite slow in
> >   this case. Setting $SIG{INT} to IGNORE did not happen yet in the child,
> >   so it was unexpectedly killed, and the next write() call caused a
> >   SIGPIPE in the parent
> 
> Sounds good :)
> I'm still not sure where to try and start looking for a fix ...

Here's a patch. Due to the accidental testing remigration, it looks
like there's still some time to salvage this package for stretch.
-- 
Niko
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