Failing to create temp file in Perl cgi script

Question

This used to work, perhaps before the Apache 2.4 upgrade?
From the httpd error log:
AH01215: Error in tempfile() using template /tmp/XXXXXXXXXX: Could not create temp file /tmp/4VmuZsw3Wt: No such file or directory at...
Here's the offending code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Temp;
use CGI;
my $q = new CGI();
print $q->header();
print "Hi mom\n";
my( $foo, $bar ) = File::Temp::tempfile();
print $foo "Test content\n";
close( $foo );
print "Hi dad\n";
1;
If invoked from the command-line, it works as intended. Tried as users me, root and http (the Apache user).
If run as CGI script, I get this:
Hi mom
then it aborts with an HTTP 500, and emits the above message in the error log.
Before anybody asks:
drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 240 May 22 20:51 /tmp
The Apache configuration has this, which /some/path/cgi contains my above script.
ScriptAlias "/cgi" /some/path/cgi
Baffled ...

Answer 1

Restarting Apache fixed the issue. Ran out of file descriptors perhaps?
The question is: will it happen again?
Last edited by jernst (2014-05-22 21:20:12)