On Jan 17, 2008 4:14 PM, Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's a thread from December that would seem to be related. From that
> thread:
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Schout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Dec 28, 2007 9:12 PM
> Subject: Re: mod_perl, ENV{'TZ'}, and localtime
> To: Kirk Noda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org
>
>
> Kirk Noda wrote:
> The reason this does not work under modperl version 2.0 is because under
> handler "perl-script", %ENV is untied from the C environment. The
> localtime() function is implemented in C, and as a result, it will never
> see the changes you made to $ENV{TZ} from mod_perl.
>
> The way I got around this was to use Env::C, and override
> CORE::localtime() with something like:
>...
> Regards,
> Michael Schout
Hmm... this is a bit beyond what I wanted to do, not sure of all the
implications of the above. Does this mean I need to do a
Env::C::setenv('PATH', $ENV{PATH}, 1);
in my script?
In any case, given the results, looks like I should report a [bug],
not necessarily in mod_perl code, but in the docs, which seem to
suggest that the docs could be clarified that changes to %ENV won't
really do what may be expected?
>From: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/coding/coding.html
>mod_perl passes (exports) the following shell environment variables
(if they are set) :
> * PATH - Executables search path.
> * TZ - Time Zone.
>Any of these environment variables can be accessed via %ENV.
If anyone has other options to recommend, let me know, will try to
look into other (non-mod-perl) to get a speedier CGI execution of perl
scripts (for a small web site).
