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Posted to dev@apr.apache.org by Jim Jagielski <ji...@jaguNET.com> on 2003/02/07 14:30:07 UTC

Re: [PATCH] allow apr_proc_create() to return failure on Unix just like

Jeff Trawick wrote:
> 
> (if the app wants to burn the cycles, that is)
> 
> With a new attribute set, apr_proc_create() will check for some common 
> problems prior to forking.  This enables the caller to handle errors 
> more gracefully with no funky code.
> 
> I have half a mind to make this attribute set by default with APR 1.0 
> and let apps that run apr_proc_create() constantly and don't want the 
> extra overhead (e.g., mod_cgi) turn it off if they want.
> 

+1 for the patch, and having it set by default in APR 1.0.
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