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Id: 27176
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: IPC-Shareable
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Owner: msouth [...] gmail.com
Requestors: dan.harbin [...] gmail.com
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Severity: Important
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  Thu May 17 15:06:05 2007 dan.harbin [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: Cannot share a string with the words HASH, ARRAY, or SCALAR
I am sharing a scalar that contains the word 'ARRAY' in it which causes a crash. The function _is_kid of IPC::Shareable checks the variable for the string 'ARRAY' in it, and if it has that string, then it assumes it's an arrayref. This is causing a crash when it tries to coerce an array out of the scalar. I believe the proper way to handle this is to get the type from ref($data). See perldoc -f ref.
  Thu May 17 15:10:45 2007 dan.harbin [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
From: dan.harbin [...] gmail.com
On Thu May 17 15:06:05 2007, dlharbin wrote: Show quoted text
> I am sharing a scalar that contains the word 'ARRAY' in it which causes > a crash. The function _is_kid of IPC::Shareable checks the variable for > the string 'ARRAY' in it, and if it has that string, then it assumes > it's an arrayref. This is causing a crash when it tries to coerce an > array out of the scalar. > > I believe the proper way to handle this is to get the type from > ref($data). See perldoc -f ref.
  Thu May 17 15:12:45 2007 dan.harbin [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
From: dan.harbin [...] gmail.com
Oops... I am having quite a bad time with this system. I meant to say that this bug appears in 0.60, not that it is fixed in 0.60.
  Wed Dec 29 18:43:03 2010 IKEGAMI [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.60 deleted
  Mon Oct 08 10:17:12 2012 msouth [...] gmail.com - Taken
  Tue Oct 09 01:52:34 2012 msouth [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
On Thu May 17 15:06:05 2007, dlharbin wrote: Show quoted text
> I am sharing a scalar that contains the word 'ARRAY' in it which causes > a crash. The function _is_kid of IPC::Shareable checks the variable for > the string 'ARRAY' in it, and if it has that string, then it assumes > it's an arrayref. This is causing a crash when it tries to coerce an > array out of the scalar. > > I believe the proper way to handle this is to get the type from > ref($data). See perldoc -f ref.
If you still have code using IPC::Shareable can you test with https://github.com/msouth/IPC-Shareable.git and see if it works? I fixed this bug there by using Scalar::Util::reftype, but I don't have a body of code to test against except for the original author's test suite.
  Tue Oct 09 01:52:35 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat Oct 13 00:08:22 2012 msouth [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Fixed in 0.61. There is no 0.61 for me to select in the dropdown, perhaps because it has just been released. Anyway--this problem should be gone if you update.
  Sat Oct 13 00:08:23 2012 msouth [...] gmail.com - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'