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* [pve-devel] [PATCH common] tools: explain reason for the explicit PerlIO load
@ 2024-12-02 16:03 Filip Schauer
  2025-02-03 11:13 ` [pve-devel] applied: " Fiona Ebner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Filip Schauer @ 2024-12-02 16:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pve-devel

Explain the reason for the explicit `use PerlIO::scalar;` statement
introduced in c4945bf ("tools: load PerlIO explicitly to avoid odd
failures")

Signed-off-by: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
---
 src/PVE/Tools.pm | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/PVE/Tools.pm b/src/PVE/Tools.pm
index 0325f53..57eb86c 100644
--- a/src/PVE/Tools.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/Tools.pm
@@ -290,12 +290,12 @@ sub file_set_contents {
 	} else {
 	    # Encode wide characters with print before passing them to syswrite
 	    my $unencoded_data = $data;
-	    # Without this we get some "Can't locate PerlIO.pm in @INC" errors _sometimes_, and the
-	    # odd thing about it is that they can be "fixed" by calling file_set_contents in the
-	    # parent methode/code before the method, from another module, is called.
-	    # Anyway, loading PerlIO here should be fine as the in-memory variable writing is in
-	    # fact backed by the PerlIO based "scalar" module. This comment can be removed once the
-	    # odd behavior is really understood.
+	    # Preload PerlIO::scalar at compile time to prevent runtime loading issues when
+	    # file_set_contents is called with PVE::LXC::Setup::protected_call. Normally,
+	    # PerlIO::scalar is loaded implicitly during the execution of
+	    # `open(my $data_fh, '>', \$data)`. However, this fails if it is executed within a
+	    # chroot environment where the necessary PerlIO.pm module file is inaccessible.
+	    # Preloading the module ensures it is available regardless of the execution context.
 	    use PerlIO::scalar;
 	    open(my $data_fh, '>', \$data) or die "failed to open in-memory variable - $!\n";
 	    print $data_fh $unencoded_data;
-- 
2.39.5



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* [pve-devel] applied: [PATCH common] tools: explain reason for the explicit PerlIO load
  2024-12-02 16:03 [pve-devel] [PATCH common] tools: explain reason for the explicit PerlIO load Filip Schauer
@ 2025-02-03 11:13 ` Fiona Ebner
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Fiona Ebner @ 2025-02-03 11:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Proxmox VE development discussion, Filip Schauer

Am 02.12.24 um 17:03 schrieb Filip Schauer:
> Explain the reason for the explicit `use PerlIO::scalar;` statement
> introduced in c4945bf ("tools: load PerlIO explicitly to avoid odd
> failures")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Filip Schauer <f.schauer@proxmox.com>
> ---
>  src/PVE/Tools.pm | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/PVE/Tools.pm b/src/PVE/Tools.pm
> index 0325f53..57eb86c 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/Tools.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/Tools.pm
> @@ -290,12 +290,12 @@ sub file_set_contents {
>  	} else {
>  	    # Encode wide characters with print before passing them to syswrite
>  	    my $unencoded_data = $data;
> -	    # Without this we get some "Can't locate PerlIO.pm in @INC" errors _sometimes_, and the
> -	    # odd thing about it is that they can be "fixed" by calling file_set_contents in the
> -	    # parent methode/code before the method, from another module, is called.
> -	    # Anyway, loading PerlIO here should be fine as the in-memory variable writing is in
> -	    # fact backed by the PerlIO based "scalar" module. This comment can be removed once the
> -	    # odd behavior is really understood.
> +	    # Preload PerlIO::scalar at compile time to prevent runtime loading issues when
> +	    # file_set_contents is called with PVE::LXC::Setup::protected_call. Normally,
> +	    # PerlIO::scalar is loaded implicitly during the execution of
> +	    # `open(my $data_fh, '>', \$data)`. However, this fails if it is executed within a
> +	    # chroot environment where the necessary PerlIO.pm module file is inaccessible.
> +	    # Preloading the module ensures it is available regardless of the execution context.
>  	    use PerlIO::scalar;
>  	    open(my $data_fh, '>', \$data) or die "failed to open in-memory variable - $!\n";
>  	    print $data_fh $unencoded_data;

Nice detective work! Applied, thanks!


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