I am in the process of migrating some production code from Solaris, perl 5.8.0 to RHEL 5.5, perl 5.10. While testing our service we have stumbled upon a corruption when using Net::SSH::Perl and Net::Telnet. Here's my error: 

Net-SSH-Perl failed with eval error:
Can't locate object method "blocking" via package "FileHandle" at /efs
+/dist/perl5/Net-SSH-Perl/1.30/
.exec/x86-64.rhel.5/5.10/lib/perl5/Net/SSH/Perl.pm line 216.
  at ./ssh_bug_test_final.pl line 49.

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Here's my code: 

#!/usr/bin/env perl5.10.0
## your use lib as needed...
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
$Data::Dumper::Sortkeys++;  

use Net::SSH::Perl;
use Net::Telnet;  ## fails 
## use Net::FTP;  ## works


my ($server, $href, $conn, );

$server = 'some.test.server.com';
$href = {
        'debug' => '1',
        'options' => [ 'ChallengeResponseAuthentication no' ],
        'protocol' => '2,1',
        'use_pty' => '1'
};


warn "Running with perl version: %vd\n", $^V;
warn 'preparing to call Net::SSH::Perl. ', Dumper( $server, $href );

eval {
        $conn = Net::SSH::Perl->new( $server, %$href );
};
if ($@) {
        warn "Net-SSH-Perl failed with eval error: \n$@ ";
}
else {
        print 'Net::SSH::Perl succeeds and returns: ', Dumper($conn);
}

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The confusing thing is that I can use Net::FTP and not Net::Telnet, and my code passes. What is it in Net::Telnet that is corrupting the $sock object in Net::SSH::Perl?

Thanks for your wisdom!

In reply to Corruption between Net::SSH::Perl and Net::Telnet by smile4me

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