Re: [PATCH 21492 30278 30419 31385] Several bugs in mod_cache / mod_disk_cache

[Bill Stoddard <bi...@wstoddard.com>]

Rüdiger Plüm wrote:

> 
> Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> 
>> --On Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:55 AM -0400 Bill Stoddard 
>> <bi...@wstoddard.com> wrote:
>>
> 
> [..cut..]
> 
>>>
>>>
>>> Well the process is not quite so structured by design, but yes, I 
>>> plan to
>>> propose we backport these into 2.0 (in time for 2.0.53) and I'll do the
>>> backport as I have time (maybe later this week).
>>
>>
>>
>> Haha.  Well, it requires three developers to approve a change for 
>> backporting. And, Bill has been excellent in driving these changes to 
>> be backported.  I usually prefer to wait until I know that he or 
>> someone else confirms the commits work for them and don't do anything 
>> stupid before it even gets proposed.  And, then another developer 
>> needs to sign off first...
>>
>>> You can help by testing Justin's patch and providing feedback to this 
>>> list.
>>
>>
>>
>> Absolutely!  Thanks!  -- justin
> 
> 
> I just tested Justin's patch(es) by compiling 
> apr-util_20040930041253.tar.gz /
> / apr_20040930041241.tar.gz and httpd-2.0_20040930041734.tar.gz and 
> doing some
> tests for the problems that are described in 30278 / 21492. The result 
> of my tests
> is that the problem is now fixed by Justin's patches.
> As the patch for 30278 has nearly not changed since 2.0.50 I think it is 
> worth mentioning that
> 
> 1. it is used at our company on a production system running 2.0.50 
> without any problems
>    and fixing the problem it has been designed for
> 
> 2. it has been tested by another user (Igor Fedulov) who opened report 
> 30278
> 
> Hope that helps.

It does, thanks.  First order of business is to garner another vote for Justin's mod_disk_cache patch 
referenced in the 2.0 STATUS file. Then I'll submit his 'stale cache entry' patch to a vote for backport.

Bill