[Slashcode-development] Perl -V info related to freshenup.pl hanging problem

[Marc M. <mwm...@ro...>]

It seems that freshenup.pl runs and when there are new articles, it 
calls prog2file.  Prog2file found in System.pm executes something like 
'index.pl virtual_user=virtslash ssi=yes' using $data=`$exec`.  It seems 
that the child process works but doesn't return and this hangs 
everything.  If a print statement is put after the prog2file call it 
doesn't hang every time, but it isn't a fix.  

It seems to be some kind of perl/system quirk with child processes.


Pudge, as requested:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.5-release, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='freebsd www 4.5-release freebsd 4.5-release #0: fri may 3 
00:26:26 pd
t 2002 us...@ja...:usrsrcsyscompile6300 i386 '
    config_args='-de'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef 
usemultiplicity=unde
f
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include',
    optimize='-O',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.3 20010315 (release) [FreeBSD]', 
gccosandvers
=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', 
lseeksize
=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E  -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    perllibs=-lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-shared  -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under freebsd
  Compiled at May 27 2002 22:41:53
  @INC:
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl