[Speedycgi-users] Apache log/STDERR problems

[Grant D. <gr...@wo...>]

I have seen a few quirks with STDERR output from speedy.

The first problem (and the one the most concerns me) shows up using
speedy with CGI under Apache.  If the first request to Apache after it
starts up is to a speedy CGI script that prints a message to STDERR, the
STDERR output shows up at the _top_ of the Apache error log, overwriting
whatever was there.  After that any STDERR output will overwrite
existing lines in the error log from the top down.  Note that this only
happens if the speedy script is the very first request.

The second shows up when running a simple script like this in a shell:
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#!/usr/bin/speedy
print STDERR "STDERR print\n";
print "normal print\n";
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I would expect the STDERR line to always appear first in the output, but
it does not.

Last, as in
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=2413603&forum_id=12206
STDERR output using mod_speedycgi doesn't show up in the Apache error
log at all.

I have seen these on two different setups:
speedy 2.21, RedHat 7.3, perl 5.6.1 (RedHat RPM install), and Apache
1.3.27 (source build)
speedy 2.22, RedHat 9, perl 5.8.1 (source build), and Apache 1.3.28
(source build)

-Grant