Re: Apache2::Reload Segmentation Fault

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Vincent Moneymaker wrote:
> Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>>>I discovered what was causing the problem.  Even though I had used the
>>>following in the startup.pl file
>>>
>>>use Apache2::Const -compile => ':common';
>>>
>>>the Apache modules were segfaulting on the straight 'OK' constant
>>>declarations in them.
>>
>>Vincent, what do you mean by 'declaration' here? You mean you've used it?
> 
> 
> In modules where a constant such as 'OK' gets returned (like so)
> 
> sub handler {
>   print "a\n";
>   return OK;
> }
> 
> I had to change the 'OK' constant to the following
> 
> sub handler {
>   print "a\n"
>   return Apache2::Const::OK;
> }

You can't use OK, unless you do:

use Apache2::Const qw(OK);

in each module you use it. It needs to be imported.

> Bear in mind that 'return OK' worked fine if I didn't change a module, but
> if I changed something in the module like a print statement and
> Apache2::Reload was on and the module was then reloaded, that is when the
> segfault would occur
> 
> Also, if the module had a 'use Apache2::Const qw(OK);' statement, I had to
> remove those like so
> 
> package Apache2::Menus;
> 
> #use Apache2::Const qw(OK);
> 
> sub handler {
>   print "a\n";
>   return Apache2::Const::OK;
> }
> 
> So now, whenever I change a module, the change shows up and no segfault
> occurs.  With respect to duplicating the problem, I will keep trying to
> duplicate it in the test tarball that you sent me so that I can duplicate it
> for you.

Great. Thanks. But post it to the list.

> With regard to the reload problem where one *.pm file calls another *.pm
> file but changes in the second *.pm file don't show up, I have fixed that
> problem by using the old Apache::Reload code (i.e. version 0.08) where
> Modperl::Util::unload_package doesn't get used.  Using that old code,
> everything works fine.

Cool. So we know whose fault is that. Hopefully you will make up another 
tarball that reproduces this problem too. Thanks!


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