This is a follow up to node Mysterious script crash in win2k

sub mlog {
 my $fh=shift;
 d(34);
 my $m=localtime();
 $m=~s/^... (...) +(\d+) (\S+) ..(..)/$1-$2-$4 $3/;
 $m.= " $Con{$fh}->{ip} <$Con{$fh}->{mailfrom}>" if $fh && $Con{$fh};
 $m.= " $_[0]\n";
 print $m unless $silent;
 print DEBUG  $m;
 if($logfile && open(LOG,">>$logfile")) {print LOG $m; close LOG;}
}
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I localized the last crash to this subroutine. d(34) printed 34 in the debug file, but the $m never appeared on the console, nor in the DEBUG log file (which is unbuffered), neither in the LOG file.

This means the program crashed inside localtime(), or doing a s/// regexp replace, or concatenating to a string ($m). The $_[0] parameter that was passed in was a string constant: 'local or whitelisted', and was called this way:

  if(onwhitelist($fh,$this->{header})) {
   setmaillog(0,$fh);
   isnotspam($fh);
   mlog($fh,'local or whitelisted');
  }
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The setmaillog and isnotspam functions operated correctly and also affirm that $this is not corrupted.

Help! Something I'm doing is corrupting perl internally, and I don't know how to find that kind of bug!

john

P.S. Here's my perl's version:

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2001, Larry Wall

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