From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-01T03:10:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Apache 2 & global variables question

On Sat, 1 Oct 2005, Pascal Meunier wrote:

> I tried reducing the scripts as you suggested, but here's what happens.
> Almost any change I make to the script removes the error "string contains
> null byte (ArgumentError)".  Irrelevant changes in the main script, long
> after all the load statements, make the load error go away.  If I change the
> first line to "#!/usr/bin/ruby", removing the "-w" option, the *error* (not
> a warning) goes away.  How could not printing warnings remove an error?  The
> error doesn't happen if I build up an example from scratch, instead of
> reducing, until I have the same script again.  I have many other scripts
> doing similar load operations using $load_path without errors, at the very
> time this script fails.  My head hurts.
>
> I am hesitant to post all the scripts involved because there are a lot.
> Perhaps I could email them directly to you or anyone interested to avoid
> generating too much noise on this list.  Such a peculiar and brittle
> situation is probably not of interest to many.

post them online perhaps - the more eyes the better.

regards.

-a
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