[SP-pm] Bitten By the Red Hat Perl Bug

Russo russoz at gmail.com
Sat Aug 30 08:39:17 PDT 2008


Bom, o perl bugado do RH/CentOS acabou de sair no slashdot... quem sabe
agora eles descolem as nádegas da cadeira e comecem a se mexer.

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via Slashdot by kdawson on 8/29/08 snydeq writes "Smart coders always
optimize the slowest thing. But what if 'the slowest thing' is the code
supplied by your vendor? That was exactly the situation Vipul Ved
Prakash discovered when he tinkered with a company Linux box on which
Perl code was running at least 100 times slower than expected. The
code, he found, was running on CentOS Linux, using Perl packages built
by Red Hat. So Prakash got rid of the Perl executable that came with
CentOS, compiled a new one from stock, and the bug disappeared. 'What's
more disturbing,' McAllister writes, 'is that this Red Hat Perl
performance issue is a known bug,' first documented in 2006 on Red
Hat's own Bugzilla database. Folks affected by the current bug have two
options: sit tight, or compile the Perl interpreter from source —
effectively waiving your support contract. If a Linux vendor can't
provide comprehensive maintenance and support for the open source
software projects you depend on, McAllister asks, who ever will?"


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