perl / embperl -- IPC::Open3;

djlerman has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have come here to ask for your guidance.

I tried searches on line and even tried joining the mailing list for emperl embperl-subscribe@perl.apache.org I don't think it is available anymore.

I have a sample program in 2 formats perl & embperl

The perl version works as a CGI but the embperl version does not work.

Any suggestions or pointers to solutions would be appreciated

OS: Linux version 2.6.35.6-48.fc14.i686.PAE (...) (gcc version 4.5.1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1-4) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri Oct 22 15:27:53 UTC 2010

perl working script

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use IPC::Open3;
use Symbol 'gensym'; 

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

my $cmd = 'ls';

my $pid = open3(*HIS_IN, *HIS_OUT, *HIS_ERR, $cmd);
close(HIS_IN);  # give end of file to kid, or feed him
my @outlines = <HIS_OUT>;              # read till EOF
my @errlines = <HIS_ERR>;              # XXX: block potential if massi
+ve
print "STDOUT: ", @outlines, "\n";
print "STDERR: ", @errlines, "\n";

waitpid( $pid, 0 );
my $child_exit_status = $? >> 8;

print "child_exit_status: $child_exit_status\n";
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embperl non-working script

Here is the output I receive.
STDERR: ls: write error: Bad file descriptor

child_exit_status: 2

[-
use warnings;
use strict;
use IPC::Open3;
use Symbol 'gensym'; 

$escmode = 0;
$http_headers_out{'Content-Type'} = "text/plain";

my $cmd = 'ls';

my $pid = open3(*HIS_IN, *HIS_OUT, *HIS_ERR, $cmd);

close(HIS_IN);  # give end of file to kid, or feed him

my @outlines = <HIS_OUT>;              # read till EOF
my @errlines = <HIS_ERR>;              # XXX: block potential if massi
+ve
print OUT "STDOUT: ", @outlines, "\n";
print OUT "STDERR: ", @errlines, "\n";

waitpid( $pid, 0 );
my $child_exit_status = $? >> 8;

print OUT "child_exit_status: $child_exit_status\n";
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Re: perl / embperl -- IPC::Open3; by zentara (Archbishop) on May 17, 2014 at 14:09 UTC
Just looking at your embperl script, and assuming you copy&pasted it properly, it should fail because you have use strict enabled, but have a few variables without scope. `Global symbol "$escmode" requires explicit package name at ./1086395.p +l line 7. Global symbol "%http_headers_out" requires explicit package name at ./ +1086395.pl line 8.` [download] It's conceivable that the cgi is trying to print this error, but it gives your bad filedescriptor error instead. Sometimes error reporting can be deceiving. I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Old Perl Programmer Haiku ................... flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: perl / embperl -- IPC::Open3; by djlerman (Sexton) on May 19, 2014 at 20:22 UTC
$escmode and %http_headers_out are a part of and used in embperl. I don't think they need to be defined separately. Either way I removed them both from the script and I still get the same error	[reply]
Re^3: perl / embperl -- IPC::Open3; by djlerman (Sexton) on May 22, 2014 at 21:32 UTC
With the help of user ikegami over at stackoverflow. The following solutions works. [- use warnings; use strict; use IPC::Open3; use POSIX; $http_headers_out{'Content-Type'} = "text/plain"; my $cmd = 'ls'; open(my $fh, '>', '/dev/null') or die $!; dup2(fileno($fh), 1) or die $! if fileno($fh) != 1; local STDOUT; open(STDOUT, '>&=', 1) or die $!; my $pid = open3(HIS_IN, HIS_OUT, HIS_ERR, $cmd); close(HIS_IN); # give end of file to kid, or feed him my @outlines = <HIS_OUT>; # read till EOF my @errlines = <HIS_ERR>; # XXX: block potential if mas +sive print OUT "STDOUT: ", @outlines, "\n"; print OUT "STDERR: ", @errlines, "\n"; waitpid( $pid, 0 ); my $child_exit_status = $? >> 8; print OUT "child_exit_status: $child_exit_status\n"; -] [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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