----- Original Message -----
From: "Erich Oliphant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Stas Bekman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: Passing CGI environment to subprograms
> Duh :) Sorry, I thought I included the rev in my original post, yes I am
> using 2.0. Hmm, and no hacks or workarounds at this point? That sucks ;)
> Well I will poke around the code and see if I can help out.
>
> Also, are the probs I described with getting the output of
spawn_proc_prog()
> known? As I indicated that approach did set the env vars correctly, but I
> was not able to read the output handle per the example.
>
> Thanks!!!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stas Bekman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Erich Oliphant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Passing CGI environment to subprograms
>
>
> > Stas Bekman wrote:
> > > Erich Oliphant wrote:
> > >
> > >> Thanks for the reply, just getting back from a short vacation...
> > >>
> > >> My test programs:
> > >>
> > >> first.pl
> > >> ---
> > >> #!/export/home/eoliphan/gnu/bin/perl -w
> > >> use strict;
> > >> my $key;
> > >> open(LOG,"> /tmp/firstdebug.log");
> > >> foreach $key (keys %ENV)
> > >> {
> > >> print LOG "$key = $ENV{$key} \n";
> > >> }
> > >>
> > >> `/export/home/eoliphan/gnu/cgi-bin/dump_vars.pl`;
> > >> close (LOG);
> > >> ---
> > >>
> > >> dump_vars.pl has the same foreach loop and dumps to a different log
> file.
> > >> The 'firstdebug.log' has the required CGI vars. The log generated by
> > >> dump_vars.pl has what appears to be the enviroment of the httpd
> > >> executable
> > >> and no CGI vars.
> > >
> > >
> > > It works for me with mod_perl 1.0 and doesn't with 2.0.
> >
> > BTW, the 2.0 issue is known. And should be resolved at some point.
> >
> > Here is a quote from modperl_env.c
> >
> > /*
> > * XXX: what we do here might change:
> > * - make it optional for %ENV to be tied to r->subprocess_env
> > * - make it possible to modify environ
> > * - we could allow modification of environ if mpm isn't threaded
> > * - we could allow modification of environ if variable isn't a
CGI
> > * variable (still could cause problems)
> > */
> > /*
> > * problems we are trying to solve:
> > * - environ is shared between threads
> > * + Perl does not serialize access to environ
> > * + even if it did, CGI variables cannot be shared between
> threads!
> > * problems we create by trying to solve above problems:
> > * - a forked process will not inherit the current %ENV
> > * - C libraries might rely on environ, e.g. DBD::Oracle
> > */
> >
> > Meanwhile I'll add a note to the compat.pod, to avoid bug reports.
> >
> > __________________________________________________________________
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> >
>
