Hello, In mixed environment of mod_perl and cgi, cgi scripts may choose to not use mod_perl request interface, and read content of POST requests directly from STDIN. mod_perl during the initialization process closes file descriptor 0, and frees it for further reuse in other processes. Therefore, any cgi script executing after mod_perl is initialized, and in the same process tree, will have file descriptor 0 closed. The concrete example where this behavior leads to impossibility of processing POST requests is reported earlier and is located at
http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&m=119062450730646&w=2 The proposed patch fixes the issue, however, not being a perl guts expert, I would urge someone with a deeper knowledge of perl to look at it first. Chances are that there exists a mechanism in perl that allows non-destructive duplication and overloading of perl IO handles. Cheers, Dmitry Karasik --- modperl_io.c.orig 2007-09-25 15:36:02.000000000 +0200 +++ modperl_io.c 2007-09-25 15:35:51.000000000 +0200 @@ -129,6 +129,15 @@ Perl_croak(aTHX_ "Failed to dup STDIN: %" SVf, get_sv("!", TRUE)); } + /* In mixed environment of mod_perl and cgi scripts, cgi scripts may read content of + * POST requests off STDIN. do_close() calls actual close(0), freeing the descriptor 0 + * for reuse, and creating havoc for anyone reading from file descriptor 0. + * This hack changes the IO type to IoTYPE_STD, because do_close() does not call + * underlying close() on IO handles of these types, but does free the associated + * resources. */ + if ( IoIFP(io) && PerlIO_fileno(IoIFP(io)) == 0) + IoTYPE(io) = IoTYPE_STD; + /* similar to PerlIO::scalar, the PerlIO::Apache layer doesn't * have file descriptors, so STDIN must be closed before it can * be reopened */ 2. Used Components and their Configuration: *** mod_perl version 2.000003 *** using /usr/ports/www/mod_perl2/work/mod_perl-2.0.3/lib/Apache2/BuildConfig.pm *** Makefile.PL options: MP_APR_LIB => aprext MP_APXS => /usr/local/sbin/apxs MP_COMPAT_1X => 1 MP_GENERATE_XS => 1 MP_LIBNAME => mod_perl MP_USE_DSO => 1 *** The httpd binary was not found *** (apr|apu)-config linking info -L/usr/local/lib -laprutil-1 -lexpat -liconv -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -lapr-1 -lcrypt -lpthread *** /usr/local/bin/perl -V Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=freebsd, osvers=6.2-release, archname=i386-freebsd-64int uname='freebsd freebsd.org 6.2-release freebsd 6.2-release #0: sat oct 14 21:57:31 pdt 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:usrsrcsysmagickernelpath i386 ' config_args='-sde -Dprefix=/usr/local -Darchlib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach -Dprivlib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 -Dman3dir=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/perl/man/man3 -Dman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach -Dsitelib=/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 -Dscriptdir=/usr/local/bin -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Ui_malloc -Ui_iconv -Uinstallusrbinperl -Dcc=cc -Duseshrplib -Dccflags=-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN" -Doptimize=-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Ud_dosuid -Ui_gdbm -Dusethreads=n -Dusemymalloc=y -Duse64bitint' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=y, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN" -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe ', cppflags='-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN" -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib libs=-lm -lcrypt -lutil perllibs=-lm -lcrypt -lutil libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/CORE' cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MYMALLOC PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO Locally applied patches: defined-or Built under freebsd Compiled at Oct 15 2006 05:04:59 %ENV: PERL_LWP_USE_HTTP_10="1" @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8 . *** Packages of interest status: Apache2 : - Apache2::Request : - CGI : 3.15 ExtUtils::MakeMaker: 6.30, undef LWP : 5.805 mod_perl : - mod_perl2 : 2.000003 This report was generated by t/REPORT on Tue Sep 25 13:39:09 2007 GMT. -------------8<---------- End Bug Report --------------8<---------- Note: Complete the rest of the details and post this bug report to modperl <at> perl.apache.org. 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