Re: Odd python proc control / buffering behaviour - fakeroot bug

2008-08-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real problem is that fakeroot on Fedora is not up to date - even on F9. I will follow that up in a separate email :-) So if you are using fakeroot on a Fedora machine, you have a nasty race condition right there in

Re: [Server-devel] Odd python proc control / buffering behaviour - fakeroot bug

2008-08-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real problem is that fakeroot on Fedora is not up to date - even on F9. I will follow that up in a separate email :-) So if you are using fakeroot on a Fedora machine, you have a nasty race condition right there in

Re: Odd python proc control / buffering behaviour - fakeroot bug

2008-08-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something very basic is not working well with Python - After a couple of days of rumination, it all became clear. Python is off the hook, instead, I am being hit with a fakeroot bug, characterised here

Odd python proc control / buffering behaviour

2008-08-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
something very basic is not working well with Python - reading 1MB from a process and writing it to a file gets truncated at random points. Not being a native Python speaker, review and comments welcome. Hopefully I'm not losing my mind just yet. Summary: - The script untars an XO image under

Re: Odd python proc control / buffering behaviour

2008-08-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something very basic is not working well with Python - reading 1MB from a process and writing it to a file gets truncated at random points. Not being a native Python speaker, review and comments welcome. Hopefully I'm not

Re: [Server-devel] Odd python proc control / buffering behaviour

2008-08-01 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Martin Langhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something very basic is not working well with Python - reading 1MB from a process and writing it to a file gets truncated at random points. Not being a native Python speaker, review and comments welcome. Hopefully I'm not