RE: current 1.3.1 testing

For all this and more, we call 1.3.x a "development" release. :)



On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 11:56, Rob Hagopian wrote:
> Ack - my knowledge of apache modules grows very thin at this point - when
> apache is started it doesn't call a module init before it spawns children?
> There is a 'master' httpd process, that pid should be extractable, if only
> by checking the parent pid of the process that the module is running in...
> 
> Of course, if the module may in the future need locking between individual
> instances within apache, as well as to external instances of cadmin and
> other utils, perhaps SysV semaphores/shared mem might be appropriate
> (although not available on all systems that people might like to run a
> current server on)?
> 								-Rob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hunter Matthews [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:45 AM
> > To: Current Server Mailing List
> > Subject: RE: [Current-server] current 1.3.1 testing
> > 
> > 
> > Which one? httpd on linux will have anywhere from 1 - 32 pids 
> > in common
> > configs, and if one were to die (due ot whatever) apache will happily
> > restart a new one.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 11:45, Rob Hagopian wrote:
> > > But when the python module goes through its init stage it 
> > could write out
> > > the pid file with the pid of apache and cadmin could check 
> > for that pid to
> > > still exist?
> > > 								-Rob
> > > 
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: John Berninger [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > > Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 11:07 AM
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: Re: [Current-server] current 1.3.1 testing
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > > The methods used in 1.0.5 to detect a running daemon appear 
> > > > to work well,
> > > > > they don't translate well over to the python module?
> > > >         Not right now, since we're not starting a 
> > "current" service,
> > > > we're starting an httpd service.  We have to allow cadmin to 
> > > > run even if
> > > > Apache is running, since we have no way of knowing if the 
> > running copy
> > > > of Apache is the one doing Current-type stuff or not.
> > > > 
> > > > -- 
> > > > Thank you,
> > > > John Berninger
> > > > 
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