crash on async in taint mode

[Yohan N. Leder]

To replace a fork() which crashes ActivePerl 5.8.8 in taint mode, I've
tried to go through creation of a thread... And it crashes too !

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use threads;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my $thr = async{print "<p>thread in progress...</p>"};
die "thread failure\n" unless defined($thr);
$thr->detach();
sleep(1);
print "<p>main in progress...</p>";
exit 0;

ActivePerl falls in exception on async{} block.
What's wrong again ?

 

[Brian McCauley]

To replace a fork() which crashes ActivePerl 5.8.8 in taint mode, I've
tried to go through creation of a thread... And it crashes too !

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use threads;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my $thr = async{print "<p>thread in progress...</p>"};
die "thread failure\n" unless defined($thr);
$thr->detach();
sleep(1);
print "<p>main in progress...</p>";
exit 0;

ActivePerl falls in exception on async{} block.
What's wrong again ?

Windows doesn't have a real fork(). It is emulated with threads, so I
suspect you are seeing the same bug.

 

[Ben Morrow]

Windows doesn't have a real fork(). It is emulated with threads, so I
suspect you are seeing the same bug.

http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=547313

Ben

 

[Yohan N. Leder]

Windows doesn't have a real fork(). It is emulated with threads, so I
suspect you are seeing the same bug.

Thanks. Then, it sounds I have to go through Win32:rocess as you said
in the other thread.

 

[Yohan N. Leder]

http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=547313

Ben

OK, posted : "fork() and async{} with "use threads", both crash on
ActivePerl 5.8.8 build 817 with Apache2 under Windows 2000 Pro FR SP4"
on the page you gave. Unless going through Win32:rocess, do you know a
work-around ?