More on broken mod_status output

[Rasmus Lerdorf <ra...@lerdorf.on.ca>]

Ok, some more feedback from the person reporting that mod_status doesn't
register terminated httpd processes correctly.  The report is at:

  http://ca.php.net/bugs.php3?id=761

and he sent me a sample mod_status output:

  http://netwinder.lerdorf.on.ca/bad-status.html

Basically it has:

WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWKWWW____WWWWWW_..................................
................................................................
................................................................
................................................................

while a ps shows him that only 3 httpd processes actually exist.

So, the question is, could I be doing something in the PHP module which
would cause this?  For example, what if the module caused a core dump in
the middle of a request?  Would the scoreboard get stuck in write mode for
that process?

-Rasmus