[sf-perl] Weird IPC/Apache problem

[Jonathan Swartz]

Could it be because mod_perl 2 closes STDOUT? I just discovered this  
and posted about it:

     http://marc.info/?l=apache-modperl&m=126296015910250&w=2

I think it's a nasty bug, but no one seems to care about it thus far.  
Post a follow up on the mod_perl list if your problem is related.

Jon

On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Randy J. Ray wrote:

> (I've posted this to Stackoverflow.com and one other PM list, so  
> apologies if
> anyone happens to see this twice)
>
> I have a module that uses IPC::Open3 (or IPC::Open2, both exhibit  
> this problem)
> to call an external binary (bogofilter in this case) and feed it  
> some input via
> the child-input filehandle, then reads the result from the child- 
> output handle.
> The code works fine when run in most environments. However, the main  
> use of
> this module is in a web service that runs under Apache 2.2.6. And  
> under that
> environment, I get the error:
>
> Cannot fdopen STDOUT: Invalid argument
>
> This only happens when the code runs under Apache. Previously, the  
> code
> constructed a horribly complex command, which included a here- 
> document for the
> input, and ran it with back-ticks. THAT worked, but was very slow  
> and prone to
> breaking in unique and perplexing ways. I would hate to have to  
> revert to the
> old version, but I cannot crack this.
>
> I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm using the list-form  
> when I call
> open3 ("open3($chld_in, $chld_out, $chld_err, @command_and_args)")  
> rather than
> a string, so as to avoid the extra bash process.
>
> Randy
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