Hi all,

I've been trying to profile a suid CGI script and have been having a lot of problems. Suid programs do not allow the -d flag, which immediately eliminates Devel::DProf and Devel::Profile.
I have managed to get Devel::Profiler running, but it only outputs the subs called in main. This script calls other chunks of perl code with things like
require "modules/foo.pl";

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with foo.pl having subs like a, b, and c. Unfortunately the output from Profiler doesn't even seem to know those subs exist.
As a final wrinkle, I cannot run these scripts via the commandline because they are CGIs that require complex user validation and config loading before proceeding to the main code.
Is there an approach I can take to get a usable profile without doing some major hacking and/or without tedious manual profiling?

Thanks.

In reply to Profiling suid CGIs by blahblah

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