--------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHORT TERM STUFF (this section should always be empty in a release version!) (well, close to it anyhow) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - DEFAULT_PATH quoting fixup [Sheldon Hearn ] - PERL_STATIC_EXTS doesnt work with USE_APACI=1 - solaris Perl Configure adds a space before -R in ccdlflags, see about removing that [Ken McNamara ] - fixup for building with apxs when $Config{useshrplib} eq "define" [iroca@ssa.siemens.es] - see if possible to have the dso libperl.so be named something else, e.g. libmodperl.so [Eugene B. Byrganov ] - auth stuff segfaults if AuthType isn't set [Matt Sergeant ] - Support of in a EBCDIC environment [Ignasi Roca ] - Apache::FakeRequest::args doesnt behave right in a list context [Michael Finke ] - rename PerlSendHeader? - syswrite/WRITE - libapreq: Apache::Cookie format sync w/ CGI.pm - remove DIR_MAGIC_TYPE from mod_perl's handler table, if possible (Salvador) - should Apache::Registry use -M or (stat _)[9]? - ActivePerl? - Apache::Include->virtual should return run() value, not status() - think about making 'use Apache::Log ()' automatic - coderef to $r->custom_response [Randal L. Schwartz ] - PerlRun::flush_namespace needs to check if_owner for all types, not just cvs. NOTE: i dont think this is possible, only CVs have a GV pointer attached -dougm [John M Vinopal ] - should $r->content unset $r->headers_in('content-length') ? NOTE: im worried this could break apps who need to know content-length after data has been read --------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN BUGS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Gerald's report of Embperl/sub-request/print breakage - need turn of strip of httpd during 'make install' ? - SSIs executed using /bin/sh, not suexec as configured? Theo Van Dinter - /perl/perl-status?sig dumps core under hpux 10.20 [David-Michael.Lincke@unisg.ch] - $r cannot use many api methods during ChildInit/ChildExit -> SEGV - bytes_sent are not logged if header don't go through send_http_header(), e.g CGI->header(-nph => 1, ...) Eric Cholet - SIGALRM/flock, Lincoln Stein I often use this type of code to handle possibly blocked flocks(): local($timed_out) = 0; local($SIG{ALRM}) = sub { $timed_out++; die "timed out"; } alarm(5); eval { flock(FH,LOCK_EX); } alarm(0); if ($timed_out) { print "We timed out. Sorry."; } This has been working in standalone CGI scripts, but no longer works in mod_perl. The signal handler gets called, but then the flock() call seems to be restarted. It never exit the eval. So this is no big deal, I just replace the blocking flock() with a poll. - find a way to prevent "httpd spinning" (bug in Perl, not mod_perl) - linkage problem w/ mod_auth_dbm (-ldbm) Config.pm New: libs='-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -ldb' Was: libs='-lsocket -lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt' SunOS mailhost.cmc.net 5.5 Generic_103093-17 sun4m sparc sun4m brian moore - perl_config should not av_shift ARRAY refs from %Apache::ReadConfig:: - die and AUTOLOADed DESTROY == empty $@ (Perl or mod_perl bug?) - ExtUtils::Embed/ExtUtils::Liblist clash sometime w/ PERL_STATIC_EXTS, like so: Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '/opt/oracle/product/7.3.3/lib/libclient.a' Note (probably harmless): No library found for -l:libcma.sl -Wl,-E -Wl,-B,deferred -L/usr/local/lib /home/web/perl5/lib/site_perl/portable/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.a /home/ etc etc ... mark rostron Brian Slesinsky - From: brian moore As Apacheweek reported a couple weeks ago, 'some' modules on Solaris have problems with the mutex locking method used by 1.3b5. One of which is mod_perl. To make it work I had to -DUSE_FCNTL_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT or the server would never answer a request. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWN MODULE BUGS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - can't multiple Apache::Include->virtual in a single request - files that have been created after the server's (child?) startup are being reported with negative age with -M test under Apache::Registry. The workaround is to add $^T = time; at the beginning of the scripts. But it would be much better if the Apache::Registry will do that