Re: [mp2] [BUG] Segfault with Test::More - duping STDOUT?

On Tuesday, 06 December 2011 17:40:14 Merlyn Kline wrote:
> To REPRODUCE the problem, you need a Broken.pm module like this:
> 
>     package Broken;
>     my $Testout;
>     create(); sub create { # Insert "{#" at the start of this line and the
> segfault goes away open( $Testout, ">&STDOUT" ) or die "Can't dup
> STDOUT:  $!"; }
> 
> and a script like this:
> 
>     #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> 
>     use Broken;
> 
>     print "Content-Type: text/html\r\n\r\nhello ";
>     open TEST, "|/bin/cat";
>     close TEST;
>     print "world\n";
> 
> Holding down F5 to generate reloads soon causes a segfault (my server is
> configured for five mod_perl processes).
> 
> Note that if the code to dup STDOUT is not in a sub then the fault seems to
> go away.

Can you reproduce the bug with modperl 2.0.5 or above (trunk)? There is a bug 
that has been fixed in 2.0.5 that could course this behavior (I guess).

see http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=932875

Torsten Förtsch

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