Broken readdir

[Paul J. Lucas]

Back on 11 Dec 2000, Richard Dice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Here's something that myself and my sysadmin guy have been working on for a
> bit: opendir appears to be broken for us on a new Apache/mod_perl
> installation.
> 
> We've tried checking out the mailing list archives but nothing jumpped out at
> us along these lines.

        (See 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/landchoigrerm/[EMAIL PROTECTED])

        I am having the same problem and looked at all the follow-ups
        but nobody ever gave him an answer that solved the problem.

        readdir() works just fine in a stand-alone Perl script and as
        an ordinary CGI, but returns zero-length strings under
        mod_perl.  Interestingly, glob() works.

        Data: Perl 5.6.0, Apache 1.3.17, mod_perl 1.24_01, Linux 2.2.14
        i686, libc 2.2.

        I have another box where everything is the same except: Linux
        2.2.17 ppc, libc 2.1 and the code works fine.

        Any ideas why readdir is broken only under mod_perl?

        - Paul