I'm in the process of fixing up a large cgi application so that it runs correctly under mod_perl 2.0, using Apache::Registry. There were a handful of END blocks, most of which I've rewritten using the cleanup_register function, which works great. Now I've come to one which prints to STDOUT in an END block, but it's not printing anything since I switched to cleanup_register. It seems like Apache is closing STDOUT (or untying it, or whatever) before it runs the cleanup code.

Anyone know of a different way I could print to STDOUT as the script is finishing, or get STDOUT working in the cleanup code?

The script below is a simple example of what I'm talking about. "finishing stdout." never gets printed. The commented out lines didn't help. 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n(in main code)\n";

# my $old;
# open ($old, ">&STDOUT") or die "Can't dup STDOUT: $!";

my $r = Apache->request;
$r->pool->cleanup_register(\&finish);

sub finish
{
    print STDERR "finishing...\n";
#   open (STDOUT, ">&", $old) or die "Can't dup \$old: $!";
    print "finishing stdout.\n";
    print STDERR "finished.\n";
}

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In reply to Can I print to STDOUT in mod_perl cleanup_register code? by blahblahblah

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