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Id: 14381
Status: resolved
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Queue: Module-Pluggable
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Owner: simonw [...] cpan.org
Requestors: alexmv [...] bestpractical.com
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  Wed Aug 31 15:58:41 2005 alexmv [...] bestpractical.com - Ticket created
Subject: Prevent infinite recursion in list_packages
From: Alex Vandiver <alexmv [...] bestpractical.com>
To: bug-Module-Pluggable [...] rt.cpan.org
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:58:16 -0400
Heya, Module::Pluggable sometimes goes into infinite recursion, hosing the CPU and consuming increasing memory until it grinds to a halt. This is because it is possible for the package stash to contain "::", which causes list_packages to spiral downhill. A patch is attached. I'm still not sure exactly what causes the "::" in the package, at this point -- it happens when there are Emacs lock files in the plugin directory, but I've been unable to make a simple test case that reproduces the problem. There may be a Perl bug under this somewhere, as well. As soon as I have a test case, I'll submit a patch with it. - Alex

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  Thu Sep 01 09:30:55 2005 simonw [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Thu Sep 01 09:36:38 2005 simon [...] thegestalt.org - Correspondence added
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:36:06 +0100
From: Simon Wistow <simon [...] thegestalt.org>
To: Alex Vandiver via RT <bug-Module-Pluggable [...] rt.cpan.org>
Subject: Re: [cpan #14381] Prevent infinite recursion in list_packages
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Alex Vandiver via RT said: Show quoted text
> Module::Pluggable sometimes goes into infinite recursion, hosing the > CPU and consuming increasing memory until it grinds to a halt. This is > because it is possible for the package stash to contain "::", which > causes list_packages to spiral downhill. A patch is attached. > I'm still not sure exactly what causes the "::" in the package, at > this point -- it happens when there are Emacs lock files in the plugin > directory, but I've been unable to make a simple test case that > reproduces the problem. There may be a Perl bug under this somewhere, > as well. As soon as I have a test case, I'll submit a patch with it.
Cheers. Applied and released as 2.96
  Thu Sep 01 09:36:48 2005 simonw [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'new' to 'resolved'