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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 02:09:31 -0700
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
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Subject: Re: mod_perl 2 / %ENV / "system" function
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H�ctor Al�s i Font wrote:
> En/na Stas Bekman ha escrit:
> 
>> H�ctor Al�s i Font wrote:
>>
>>> En/na Stas Bekman ha escrit:
>>>
>>>> H�ctor Al�s i Font wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm migrating a web application from mod_perl 1 to mod_perl 2 [new 
>>>>> environment: Apache/2.0.49 (Unix) mod_perl/1.99_14 Perl/v5.8.4].
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem is that in some places the %ENV variable is used to 
>>>>> pass parameters to programmes called via "system". Now these 
>>>>> variables are not found in the called programme. E.g.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Right, environ is not tied in mp2 due to threads issues. Please take 
>>>> a look at:
>>>> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.html#C_Libraries_Don_t_See_C__ENV__Entries_Set_by_Perl_Code 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Thanks for the answer. In fact I saw this piece of documentation 
>>> already, but I'm not sure it suits for my case: as I understand, we 
>>> might push the parameters in the startup file... but that's useless 
>>> if we really want to pass a parameter which is changing from one 
>>> execution to the other (not in the case of $ORACLE_PATH). It seems 
>>> that I'll have to change quite a little amount of code :-(
>>
>>
>>
>> You understand why we can't change the C environ, right? We had to 
>> write code to decouple it so %ENV will work correctly under threads. 
>> Without this decoupling a hell breaks loose as one thread will affect 
>> %ENV of all other threads (well perl interpreters in our case)
>>
>> Try Env::C if you are using prefork.
>>
> Yes, I understand pretty well. Fortunately i'm not using threads, so 
> this module would perfectly suits... but i'm woking under Solaris and 
> the module does not build under it: i'll have to make a patch, change 
> the web programme or do not upgrade to mod_perl 2. I'm not sure i'll be 
> able to do the first. Thanks for the help.

Right, if you or someone submits patches to make Env::C working on Solaris I'd 
gladly apply them. I also need patches to make it working under mswin32.

Now that I think of it, Env::C is probably not the best name for this module, 
but the idea came from being able to modify things that C sees, from Perl :)

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