Segfault: forks and DBI

jdrago_999 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Monks,

I have just noticed the following bug (in either forks or DBI):

This works:
perl -Mforks -MDBI -e ''

This doesn't work:
perl -MDBI -Mforks -e ''
(Causes segfault).

Apparently, loading DBI before loading forks causes the problem, while loading forks before loading DBI runs normally.

I have confirmed this with perl 5.10.0 on Ubuntu 8.04, forks v0.27, DBI v1.607, as well as perl 5.8.8 on Fedora 7 with forks v0.27 and DBI v1.607.

What gives?

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Re: Segfault: forks and DBI by gwadej (Chaplain) on Nov 25, 2008 at 17:53 UTC
From the fork docs: Since forks overrides core Perl functions, you are strongly encouraged to load the forks module before any other Perl modules. This will insure the most consistent and stable system behavior. I'd say a segfault might be related to strongly encouraged to load forks first. G. Wade	[reply]
Re^2: Segfault: forks and DBI by jdrago_999 (Hermit) on Nov 25, 2008 at 20:01 UTC
Thanks for pointing that out :)	[reply]