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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by "Roy T. Fielding" <fi...@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU> on 1996/11/24 04:39:20 UTC

Re: Whoops.

> Whoops.  I missed the feature freeze...
> 
> I had an update for support/suexec.c
> 
> The changes were minor, and we *could* run with the current version.
> However, here are the changes that were made:
> 
>  * Version 0.1.0 - Jason A. Dour
>  *    First beta.  Removed HAVE_RLIMIT and related rlimit code
>  * now that the server handles the functionality.  Moved user-
>  * defined code to suexec.h.  Added "DON'T EDIT" warning in code.
>  * No more "security by obscurity"...comments added at each step.
> 
> For the most part, the biggest change was the *removal* of HAVE_RLIMIT.
> Other than that, it's mostly comments and a "DON'T EDIT" warning.  The
> user-definable variables have been moved to suexec.h to keep people from
> editing the code.  IMHO, suexec.c should not be writable by default in the
> tarball...

+1 to commit these changes now.  It is worth the exception to the feature
freeze, since I would consider this a bug fix anyway.

.....Roy