[Rt-devel] [patch] RT 3.8 bug when using Fcntl perl module

[Ivan Kohler]

Unless I'm mistaken, I believe this was included in 3.8.8 but is missing 
in 3.9.6?  Can it be applied to the 3.9 branch, too?

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On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 07:35:53AM -0800, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> Thanks. Applied as df7a20d87c92774126ae7251c563214fc6eb82c0
> 
> 
> On Mon  8.Feb'10 at 19:47:04 -0800, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I find myself having recently encountered the bug indicated here:
> > 
> >   http://lists.fsck.com/pipermail/rt-users/2009-September/061167.html
> > 
> > (including "use Fcntl;" in a script which uses the RT libraries 
> > and attempts to LoadConfig() and Init() causes io error out with an 
> > error: "Couldn't load RT config file RT_SiteConfig.pm: Not a SCALAR 
> > reference")
> > 
> > The following patch to lib/RT/Config.pm should fix the problem and allow 
> > use of RT libraries while Fcntl (and probably other similar modules 
> > which export symbols) are loaded concurrently:
> > 
> > @@ -821,7 +821,7 @@
> >              # XXX skip references to scalars or other references.
> >              # Otherwie 5.10 goes boom. may be we should skip any
> >              # reference
> > -            return if ref($entry) eq 'SCALAR' || ref($entry) eq 'REF';
> > +            next if ref($entry) eq 'SCALAR' || ref($entry) eq 'REF';
> >              my $entry_ref = *{$entry}{ ref($ref) };
> >              next unless $entry_ref;
> > 
> > 
> > Just another happy RT user (and embedder),
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ivan Kohler
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