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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2021-07-28 13:01:35 +0000
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2021-07-28 13:14:54 +0000
commit3235da5abd4c96f5ae2ec908dc9c110d2aebf65a (patch)
treef40ee1bc15d76e6dfb5c66af334ef1791f70a61a /os2
parentfbc41327d5599cf49e8f0c5a8e5395b52adf7d2c (diff)
downloadperl-3235da5abd4c96f5ae2ec908dc9c110d2aebf65a.tar.gz
Don't call av_fetch() with TRUE to create an SV that is immediately freed.
In Perl_my_pclose() the code as been calling av_fetch() with TRUE (lvalue; create the SV if not found) since the Perl 4 -> Perl 5 migration. The code *had* been assuming that the returned result was always a valid SvIV until commit 25d9202327791097 in Jan 2001: Safe fix for Simon's pclose() doing SvIVX of undef -> core bug. which fixes the bug reported in https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2001/01/msg28651.html That commit changed the code to default the IV result (the pid) to -1 if the av_fetch() failed to return SVt_IV. However, that commit failed to notice that the value -1 was *already* "in use" *only 4 lines later* as a flag for OS/2 to indicate "Opened by popen." Hence switch the OS/2 sentinel value to -2. The that states that OS/2 has a my_pclose implementation in os2.c is wrong. It was erroneously added by commit 5f05dabc4054964a in Dec 1996: [inseparable changes from patch from perl5.003_11 to perl5.003_12] It appears to be a copy-paste error from the previous comment added about my_popen. I tested this fix with the 2001-era code of commit 25d9202327791097 - it (also) solves the bug reported back then.
Diffstat (limited to 'os2')
-rw-r--r--os2/os2.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/os2/os2.c b/os2/os2.c
index 7c4b6dd7da..0d29d13251 100644
--- a/os2/os2.c
+++ b/os2/os2.c
@@ -1666,7 +1666,7 @@ my_syspopen4(pTHX_ char *cmd, char *mode, I32 cnt, SV** args)
# endif
sv = *av_fetch(PL_fdpid, PerlIO_fileno(res), TRUE);
(void)SvUPGRADE(sv,SVt_IV);
- SvIVX(sv) = -1; /* A cooky. */
+ SvIVX(sv) = -2; /* A cooky. */
return res;
#endif /* USE_POPEN */