Nope, problem is real, patch to follow momentarily...

["Robert S. Thau" <rs...@ai.mit.edu>]

Problem is as follows:  accept_mutex_init() uses popenf on the config
pool to open its file descriptor... which means that it gets closed when
the config pool is cleared on restarts.  But the code is "clever" --- if
it has already opened the file, it doesn't reopen it.   The fix (now 
being tested) is not to be so clever:

*** http_main.c~        Thu Aug 17 11:41:05 1995
--- http_main.c Fri Aug 18 10:01:52 1995
***************
*** 152,159 ****
  {
      char lock_fname[19];
  
-     if (lock_fd >= 0) return;  /* Already initialised */
- 
      strcpy(lock_fname, "/usr/tmp/htlock.XXXXXX");
      
      if (mktemp(lock_fname) == NULL || lock_fname[0] == '\0')

Assuming this works, I'll have a fixed 0.8.10 ready in half an hour, tops;
I see no reason not to release the result, but by strict formal rules, we
would need another 24 hours to vote on the above patch...

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