Re: ModPerl::RegistryLoader::finfo fails on Windows possibly due to lack of permissions.

On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 at 18:07, Thorsten Schöning <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently started to have a look at supporting mod_perl for our
> WebApp on Windows again and implemented a very simple PoC pre-loading
> our app during start of HTTPd using "PerlPostConfigRequire". During
> implementation I ran into the following problem with my setup.
>
> My HTTPd is NOT running using an account with lots of permissions like
> SYSTEM, but as a standard user instead. That user has read permissions
> on all necessary files to serve and execute, can write logs properly
> etc. Everything is working fine using plain CGI instead of mod_perl as
> well.
>
> When enabling mod_perl, the service refuses to start and the following
> error is logged after some waiting:
>
> > [Wed Jul 31 18:35:50.609122 2019] [perl:error] [pid 15276:tid 848] APR::Finfo::stat: (70008) Partial results are valid but processing is incomplete at C:\\Program Files\\Apache Software Foundation\\mod_perl\\Current\\Perl64\\site\\lib/ModPerl/RegistryLoader.pm line 119Compilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 1.\n
>
[...]
> All this leads to the following questions:
>
> 1. Does that make sense to anyone at all? :-)
> 2. Does mod_perl really needs FINFO_NORM or can switch to FINFO_MIN?
> 3. Is this maybe something the APR-project itself should lookt at?
>    FINFO_NORM seems to be some default which should fail in other
>    contexts with standard users as well.
>

I ran into this myself recently. I posted questions about it to the
APR-Dev list, and subsequently found an old bug report of exactly the
same problem:

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51560

Sadly, there is no response from APR-Dev about this yet.