tags 292071 patch thanks Hi,
speedy actually segfaults when it has any problems reading the perl script specified on the command line. Furthermore, its command-line parsing is not quite compatible with the real Perl, and in the '-I .' case it's treating the dot as the script filename. The segfault happens in src/speedy_util.c:just_die(), in the strerror() call. The reason is a bit complicated: including "perl.h" makes strerror() a wrapper that needs a running embedded perl interpeter to work. The wrapper resides in /usr/lib/perl/5.8.4/CORE/reentr.inc. It tries to access an interpreter-specific area for global variables, in this case the strerror buffer, but this area is not allocated yet since no interpreter has been started. The easiest workaround I could come up with (aside from starting an interpreter in the frontend, which I guess would make SpeedyCGI more or less useless with the increased overhead) is to switch from strerror() to strerror_r(). The attached dpatch does this and fixes the issue for me. I tried to make the patch portable to other operating systems, but at least it does work for Debian (sarge and sid). I'll report this upstream as well, FWIW. The command-line parsing incompatibilities with the real Perl aren't very easy to fix, as even the perlrun manpage isn't quite accurate on which parameters can be separated (like '-I') and which can't (like '-C'). Speedy doesn't allow any of them to be separated. It considers the first option without a leading dash as the script filename. Cheers, -- Niko Tyni [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
