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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