Re: memory leaking on POST

What bucket type is SPOOL?  I don't see it as a real bucket type.  I'd
like to try out the patch here, but I can't duplicate it because I
don't know what a spool bucket is.  Do you mean HEAP?

On 11/13/06, Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Philip M. Gollucci" <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > Joe Schaefer wrote:
> >
> >> Until someone teaches apreq_brigade_fwrite about spool buckets,
> >> it probably shouldn't be used for upload brigades.  Sorry about that.
> > I was looking at this a while ago -- APR/U have this function.
>
> Really?  What's it called?
>
> > We custom coded our own -- why ?
>
> Because I didn't know apr has something like it? In any case,
> the "mistake" here is that apreq_brigade_fwrite doesn't
> consume the brigade, but leaves it "intact".  I should
> have made that function consume the brigade instead- my bad.
>
> The fix is easy enough- just use apr_file_read instead of
> apr_bucket_read when dealing with spool buckets.  That'd fix
> the memory problem for this particular use-case. I wrote a patch
> last night, but I haven't had the opportunity to write any tests
> for it yet, and probably won't until the weekend comes around.
>
> --
> Joe Schaefer
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