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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com> on 1997/05/09 10:05:29 UTC

Re: B10 Documentation Wrong

Ok, thanks for the information.

regards,
rob


On Thu, 8 May 1997, Brent Holland wrote:

> In the "Stopping and Restarting Apache" manual page in the 1.2b10
> distribution, you state:
> 
> 'NEXT and MACHTEN have small race conditions which can cause a
> restart/die signal to be lost, but should not cause the server to
> do anything otherwise problematic.'
> 
> This is not entirely accurate.  Only MachTen on 68K platforms would
> have this small race condition, as MachTen for 68K relies on the Apache
> USE_LONGJMP definition.  MachTen on a PowerPC platform does not have
> the race condition.
> 
> Please change 'MACHTEN' to 'MACHTEN on 68k platforms' in your copy.  Thanks.
> 
> Brent Holland
> Tenon Intersystems 

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Re: B10 Documentation Wrong

Posted by Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>.

Actually the real problem is sigaction moreso than the lack of siglongjmp. 
The code where this matters doesn't use longjmp.  At any rate I should
have been more thorough when looking through conf.h.  Thanks.

Dean

On Fri, 9 May 1997, Rob Hartill wrote:

> 
> Ok, thanks for the information.
> 
> regards,
> rob
> 
> 
> On Thu, 8 May 1997, Brent Holland wrote:
> 
> > In the "Stopping and Restarting Apache" manual page in the 1.2b10
> > distribution, you state:
> > 
> > 'NEXT and MACHTEN have small race conditions which can cause a
> > restart/die signal to be lost, but should not cause the server to
> > do anything otherwise problematic.'
> > 
> > This is not entirely accurate.  Only MachTen on 68K platforms would
> > have this small race condition, as MachTen for 68K relies on the Apache
> > USE_LONGJMP definition.  MachTen on a PowerPC platform does not have
> > the race condition.
> > 
> > Please change 'MACHTEN' to 'MACHTEN on 68k platforms' in your copy.  Thanks.
> > 
> > Brent Holland
> > Tenon Intersystems 
> 
> --
> Rob Hartill                              Internet Movie Database (Ltd)
> http://us.imdb.com/tour   .. a site for sore eyes.
> 
>