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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-10-10 02:23:52 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1999-10-10 02:23:52 +0000
commitaeb5d71d10f95df991fb160dc1adaa06bf9515f4 (patch)
treecd0d805d5f3e4b4821d874e189d259c35ce648c5 /lib/lib.pm
parent478234b44aea7800ebba14003c0ebc1817d65a58 (diff)
downloadperl-aeb5d71d10f95df991fb160dc1adaa06bf9515f4.tar.gz
avoid duplicates in @INC, they cause leaks in mod_perl etc
(suggested by Tod Irwin <irwin@stockmaster.com>) p4raw-id: //depot/perl@4327
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/lib.pm')
-rw-r--r--lib/lib.pm43
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/lib/lib.pm b/lib/lib.pm
index 6e6e15e4ce..ea3ea5ef73 100644
--- a/lib/lib.pm
+++ b/lib/lib.pm
@@ -10,13 +10,12 @@ my $archname = $Config{'archname'};
sub import {
shift;
+
+ my %names;
foreach (reverse @_) {
- ## Ignore this if not defined.
- next unless defined($_);
if ($_ eq '') {
require Carp;
Carp::carp("Empty compile time value given to use lib");
- # at foo.pl line ...
}
if (-e && ! -d _) {
require Carp;
@@ -29,27 +28,23 @@ sub import {
unshift(@INC, "$_/$archname") if -d "$_/$archname/auto";
unshift(@INC, "$_/$archname/$]") if -d "$_/$archname/$]/auto";
}
+ # remove trailing duplicates
+ @INC = grep { ++$names{$_} == 1 } @INC;
}
}
sub unimport {
shift;
- my $mode = shift if $_[0] =~ m/^:[A-Z]+/;
my %names;
- foreach(@_) {
+ foreach (@_) {
++$names{$_};
++$names{"$_/$archname"} if -d "$_/$archname/auto";
}
- if ($mode and $mode eq ':ALL') {
- # Remove ALL instances of each named directory.
- @INC = grep { !exists $names{$_} } @INC;
- } else {
- # Remove INITIAL instance(s) of each named directory.
- @INC = grep { --$names{$_} < 0 } @INC;
- }
+ # Remove ALL instances of each named directory.
+ @INC = grep { !exists $names{$_} } @INC;
}
1;
@@ -74,7 +69,7 @@ It is typically used to add extra directories to perl's search path so
that later C<use> or C<require> statements will find modules which are
not located on perl's default search path.
-=head2 ADDING DIRECTORIES TO @INC
+=head2 Adding directories to @INC
The parameters to C<use lib> are added to the start of the perl search
path. Saying
@@ -90,10 +85,10 @@ checks to see if a directory called $dir/$archname/auto exists.
If so the $dir/$archname directory is assumed to be a corresponding
architecture specific directory and is added to @INC in front of $dir.
-If LIST includes both $dir and $dir/$archname then $dir/$archname will
-be added to @INC twice (if $dir/$archname/auto exists).
+To avoid memory leaks, all trailing duplicate entries in @INC are
+removed.
-=head2 DELETING DIRECTORIES FROM @INC
+=head2 Deleting directories from @INC
You should normally only add directories to @INC. If you need to
delete directories from @INC take care to only delete those which you
@@ -101,24 +96,15 @@ added yourself or which you are certain are not needed by other modules
in your script. Other modules may have added directories which they
need for correct operation.
-By default the C<no lib> statement deletes the I<first> instance of
-each named directory from @INC. To delete multiple instances of the
-same name from @INC you can specify the name multiple times.
-
-To delete I<all> instances of I<all> the specified names from @INC you can
-specify ':ALL' as the first parameter of C<no lib>. For example:
-
- no lib qw(:ALL .);
+The C<no lib> statement deletes all instances of each named directory
+from @INC.
For each directory in LIST (called $dir here) the lib module also
checks to see if a directory called $dir/$archname/auto exists.
If so the $dir/$archname directory is assumed to be a corresponding
architecture specific directory and is also deleted from @INC.
-If LIST includes both $dir and $dir/$archname then $dir/$archname will
-be deleted from @INC twice (if $dir/$archname/auto exists).
-
-=head2 RESTORING ORIGINAL @INC
+=head2 Restoring original @INC
When the lib module is first loaded it records the current value of @INC
in an array C<@lib::ORIG_INC>. To restore @INC to that value you
@@ -136,4 +122,3 @@ FindBin - optional module which deals with paths relative to the source file.
Tim Bunce, 2nd June 1995.
=cut
-