Package: perl-modules
Version: 5.8.8-4
Severity: normal
I am hesitating whether this is important, normal or wishlist bug; probably all
of them.
CGI.pm uses a temp dir for uploads. It does not make it possible to force it
(apart from changing the source), or set it explicitely, but uses a heuristics
to walk several hardwired dirs and use the first which is writable.
This actually breaks programs which preload CGI when apache2 starts (runs at
uid 0 because
there is no user [suexec] at that time, so everything is writable), and later
find
out that suexec'ed uid cannot write the dir, an CGI.pm fails with a cryptic
error msg.
Heuristics is a good thing, but there should be a way to override it without
changing the source, like other options allow.
And it was a _bitch_ to find this bug, since the error message is crap. I would
say this would be a nicer way to do it:
--- CGI.pm.orig 2006-05-17 16:28:28.406571126 +0200
+++ CGI.pm 2006-05-17 21:41:00.280888182 +0200
@@ -3355,7 +3355,7 @@
last if defined($filehandle =
Fh->new($filename,$tmp,$PRIVATE_TEMPFILES));
$seqno += int rand(100);
}
- die "CGI open of tmpfile: $!\n" unless defined $filehandle;
+ die "CGI.pm open of tmpfile ($tmp/$filename): $!\n" unless defined
$filehandle;
$CGI::DefaultClass->binmode($filehandle) if $CGI::needs_binmode
&& defined fileno($filehandle);
(If you don't want to share $tmp/$filename, at least use "CGI.pm" instead of
"CGI", and
maybe tell $tmp at least, so people can tell WHICH part of some hundred
included modules
spew the error and why.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-k7-yikes
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU (charmap=ISO-8859-2)
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ii perl 5.8.8-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
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