Thanks for your help...this bug has me feeling very isolated...
Just about everything here is necessary to generate the bug. In
particular, I cannot generate the bug...
* If I move the code from connect.pl into the handler, even as a
string eval
* If I remove the "BEGIN" from connect.pl
* If I replace sendmail with another program
That's the most interesting one to me. Try replacing it with a perl
script that reports what open file descriptors have been inherited.
Ok. What's the easiest way to do that? :) Sorry, probably dumb
question, but never did this before and scanning perlipc and
perlopentut and google didn't yield anything obvious.
* If I run this in a script outside of mod_perl - even a script
that forks
Obviously, I can change around our current code base to not hit this
particular condition, but that gives me no confidence that it won't
accidentally arise again, in this or another form.
Any advice on how to proceed appreciated!
Has the value of $^F ($SYSTEM_FD_MAX) been changed (from the default
2)?
No, it's still 2.
Use a system call tracing tool (truss, strace, dtrace etc) to see
what's
*actually* happening at a low level. Focus on identifying the sybase
file descriptor and tracing what happens to it.
Report back your findings so we can all play along with you ;-)
I will try. Thanks!
Jon
