os-osf/1434: CGIs run using 'rsh' frequently abort prematurely.

[Ray Bellis <rp...@community.net.uk>]

>Number:         1434
>Category:       os-osf
>Synopsis:       CGIs run using 'rsh' frequently abort prematurely.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Nov 19 03:20:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     rpb@community.net.uk
>Organization:
apache
>Release:        1.2.4 (+algroup SSL patches)
>Environment:
OSF1 alpha01.community.net.uk V3.2 41 alpha
DEC cc.
>Description:
So as not to run 'analog' on our main server our CGIs indirectly call 'rsh'
to offload the job onto another server.  Since upgrading to 1.2.4 we've had
problems where reports would abort prematurely, with no HTML document
returned.

Log symptoms would include lines such as 'rsh: select: bad file number', indicating that the Apache server had closed the output socket.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Defining USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZED_ACCEPT (although supposedly only related to problems on new listening sockets) appears to have cured the problem
>Audit-Trail:
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