Bug #18960 for File-Pid: uninitialized value warning if you call running without an existing pid file (ie run the first time)

Thu Apr 27 19:45:43 2006 Guest - Ticket created

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uninitialized value warning if you call running without an existing pid file (ie run the first time)

Use of uninitialized value in kill at /usr/local/icg/lib/perl/CPAN/lib/File/Pid.pm line 124. here is my fix: sub running { my $self = shift; my $pid = $self->_get_pid_from_file or return undef; return kill(0, $pid) ? $pid : undef; } Thanks, Gayle Awesome Module

Thu Jul 30 11:13:07 2009 CWEST [...] cpan.org - Given to MBERG

Wed Jun 23 17:21:04 2010 bitcard [...] froods.org - Correspondence added

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bitcard [...] froods.org

Bump for great justice? If you post your code repository (e.g. github URL) on CPAN, you might find that someone will submit a patch for you. :) On Thu Apr 27 19:45:43 2006, guest wrote: Show quoted text

> Use of uninitialized value in kill at > /usr/local/icg/lib/perl/CPAN/lib/File/Pid.pm line 124.

Wed Jun 23 17:21:06 2010 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Feb 04 13:30:20 2011 erwan [...] mas.nom.fr - Correspondence added

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erwan [...] mas.nom.fr

The modification in patch form . Ubuntu & Debian had already included this modifications .

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pid.patch

--- Pid.pm.orig 2005-01-11 14:09:54.000000000 +0100 +++ Pid.pm 2011-02-04 18:28:50.000000000 +0100 @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ sub running { my $self = shift; - my $pid = $self->_get_pid_from_file; + my $pid = $self->_get_pid_from_file or return undef; return kill(0, $pid) ? $pid

Wed Mar 30 09:47:07 2011 abraxxa [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Please fix this asap as it breaks usage of the module on Perl >=5.12.

Thu Feb 23 14:51:34 2012 2014 [...] denny.me - Correspondence added

On Fri Feb 04 13:30:20 2011, erwan@mas.nom.fr wrote: Show quoted text

> The modification in patch form

Thank you! I've just patched my new CentOS server so at least my ShinyCMS cron jobs are working again now.

Thu Apr 03 11:13:19 2014 MSCHOUT [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This bit me as well. On FreeBSD, this is even more severe, as kill() will blow up if $pid is undef: Can't kill a non-numeric process ID at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/File/Pid.pm line 124. Patch in this ticket fixes the issue.