No $s->uid in Apache2

I could use some suggestions from the dev group on how to deal with the
lack of $s->uid in mod_perl-2.
<http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/porting/compat.html#C__s_E_gt_uid_>

Without it, there is no way to know what user the server will be running
as, so we don't know what ownership to give the files we create at server
startup time.

We create the MasonDataDir, with the obj and cache directories at server
startup if they are not already there, but we won't be able to write to
them later if they don't get the right ownership.  (And o+w would be
insecure.)  This affects running t/08-ah.t as root, because it deletes the
obj and cache dir after each set of tests.

Maybe we can make the test framework create those directories itself, and
warn the users to do likewise.  But how annoying is that going to be for
the users?

This may affect preloads as well, since that is done at server startup
time.

~ John Williams




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