Was this ever resolved?
I'm concerned because for Oracle the environment variable ORACLE_HOME is
critical and I think the environment corruption explains some of our past
database problems.
Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 31 Jul 1999, Chip Turner wrote:
>
> > Date: 31 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0400
> > From: Chip Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: Tomasz Przygoda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: PATH env garbled in mod_perl 1.21 patch
> >
> > Oleg Bartunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > > --- mod_perl-1.21/src/modules/perl/mod_perl.h~ Thu Jul 1 19:43:35 1999
> > > >
> > > > +++ mod_perl-1.21/src/modules/perl/mod_perl.h Thu Jul 29 14:01:37 1999
> > > >
> > > > @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
> > > > #define HV_SvTAINTED_on(hv,key,klen) \
> > > > SvTAINTED_on(*hv_fetch(hv, key, klen, 0))
> > > >
> > > > -#if 0
> > > > +#if 1
> > > >
> > > > #define mp_setenv(key, val) \
> > > > mp_magic_setenv(key, val, 1)
> > > >
> > > > I guess this may be more correct as it touches couple of other macros,
> > > > that (given the
> > > > example of PATH)
> > > > I don't know if I could trust before - namely: mp_setenv, mp_SetEnv and
> > > > mp_PassEnv.
> > > >
> > >
> > > This cause significant memory leak on my Linux 2.2.10 machine running
> > > apache 1.3.6+mod_perl 1.21. After 20,000 requests httpd with this patch
> > > grows from 7Mb to 26 Mb !
> >
> > Have you had a chance to test the patch I originally submitted?
> >
>
> Yes, I tried your patch and it seems also has some memory leak but not
> very big. I don't use PATH in my applications so I dont' bothered with
> it corruption. BUT, this could hide more problems that's why I'm worry about.
> I see PATH corruption thread is rather OLD.
>
> Regards,
>
> Oleg
>
> > Something "odd" is going on with the way mod_perl modifies the
> > environment. My suspicion is that it is because of version issues
> > with perl itself when it comes to magic variables. I think to get
> > this working correctly will take more than a one line patch,
> > unfortunately.
> >
> > The corrupt path problem is easily reproduced on my system.
> > Basically, start httpd with -X and do two requests to /perl-status?env
> > to watch the path. On the third request, the beginning of the path is
> > corrupt -- but nothing else is. This is running mp 1.21 and apache
> > 1.3.6. I hope to have more time to deal with it, but I'm not certain
> > if I will in the next couple days.
> >
> > Chip
> >
> > --
> > Chip Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Programmer, ZFx, Inc. www.zfx.com
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> >
>
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