print on closed filehandle Sys::Syslog::CONS

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#2251 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT2251$

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From [email protected]

This is a bug report for perl from ask@​lbrain.valueclick.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503.

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Sys​::Syslog seems to assumes that it can print to /dev/console.

I'm not sure if that's a valid assumption. If not then something like
this should be applied to avoid unnecessary warnings.

*** Syslog.pm.org Thu Mar 2 19​:44​:15 2000
--- Syslog.pm Thu Mar 2 19​:46​:06 2000
***************
*** 225,234 ****
  }
  }
  else {
! open(CONS,">/dev/console");
! print CONS "<$facility.$priority>$whoami​: $message\r";
! exit if defined $pid; # if fork failed, we're parent
! close CONS;
  }
  }
  }
--- 225,235 ----
  }
  }
  else {
! if (open(CONS,">/dev/console")) {
! print CONS "<$facility.$priority>$whoami​: $message\r";
! exit if defined $pid; # if fork failed, we're parent
! close CONS;
! }
  }
  }
  }

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Site configuration information for perl 5.00503​:

Configured by ask at Mon Jan 10 07​:01​:26 PST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=linux, osvers=2.2.12-20smp, archname=i686-linux
  uname='linux lbrain.valueclick.com 2.2.12-20smp #1 smp mon sep 27 10​:34​:45 edt 1999 i686 unknown '
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-O6 -DAPPLLIB_EXP="/home/value/perl"', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
  cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL'
  ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL'
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
  libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
  libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
  cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches​:
 

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@​INC for perl 5.00503​:
  /home/value/perl
  /home/value/apps/perl5.005_03/lib/5.00503/i686-linux
  /home/value/apps/perl5.005_03/lib/5.00503
  /home/value/apps/perl5.005_03/lib/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux
  /home/value/apps/perl5.005_03/lib/site_perl/5.005
  .

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Environment for perl 5.00503​:
  HOME=/home/ask
  LANG=en_US
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LC_ALL=en_US
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=/usr/bin​:/bin​:/usr/bin​:/usr/X11R6/bin​:/home/ask/bin
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL=/bin/bash