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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Jim Jagielski <ji...@jaguNET.com> on 1996/09/22 19:30:29 UTC
Time's a wastin'
It's looking more and more like it's time for a public beta release:
no real additions on the table (except for the AddModule one, which
I, believe it or not, vote '+1'), and lots of good improvements.
To speed this along, could someone on hyperreal add the docs to the
CVS tree? This will make it easier for everyone to maintain them.
I think we should shoot for a release in a bit over a week: Sept 30th !
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Re: Time's a wastin'
Posted by Paul Sutton <pa...@ukweb.com>.
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> 2) There are about 25 unresolved issues I've seen over the last three months,
> since 1.1. I'll be forwarding them along, with comment. They are mostly small
> bugfixes, usually witch patches attached, which somehow we've skipped over, I
> think. They were all posted to new-httpd but just got lost in the noise.
Coincidently, we listed many of the 1.1.1. bugs in this week's Apache
Week. I've extracted the unfixed ones below, and noted which ones have
patches (usually supplied by the bug reporter, and probably untested).
There are 22 bugs here, and most are easy to fix.
Below the bugs I've listed some of the feature-enhancements that are
already coded.
BUGS
1 A race condition can cause occasional hung processes on very high
load systems. PATCH AVAILABLE.
2 Docs claim %s in ErrorDocument string prints reason for error - no
code to implement this. DOCUMENTATION NEEDS UPDATING (GENERALLY)
3 When a sub-program is about to be run, Apache checks for correct
permissions, but it does not account for other groups that the
current user might be in. PATCH AVAILABLE.
4 Hostnames starting with a number (e.g. 123.domain.com) are
incorrectly treated as IP addresses.
5 Domain names on allow and deny lines are not compared
case-insensitively.
6 Report of request "NULL" being logged in access log
Missing Hits
7 Reports of access_log missing some hits (possibly related to
keepalives)
8 ErrorLog | does not work. PATCH AVAILABLE
9 Imagemap Module: Long URLs (>100 chars) can cause buffer overflows
10 Status Module: Can gives wrong start-up time on some systems/
Core dumps on a few systems (OSF, SCO)
11 Negotiation Module: Charset negotiation is not implemented.
PATCH AVAILABLE
12 Directory Index Module: Core dump on Solaris 2 with empty directories
PATCH AVAILABLE
13 Userdir: cannot handle certain configurations, such as
http://10.1.2.3/~*
14 Includes Module: Current working directory can change while
processing includes
15 Apollo Domain: Some compilation errors on Apollo Domain
16 Digital Unix/OSF: V4.0 requires -lm because the frexp()
function has been removed from libc.so. Incompatible pointer
type warning.
17 NeXTSTEP: support/logresolve.c does not compile because of
strdup
18 OS/2 filesystem is case-independent, can cause URLs to
fail to match protection limitations
19 SCO: Dumps core in status module with a Floating exception
when compiled with -DSTATUS on SCO ODT 3.0
20 Ultrix: Compile error in http_main.c
21 Host: header can override IP virtual hosts to give access to
other vhosts's information.
22 IP-based Virtual hosts on main IP address but different ports
not working.
FEATURES (PATCHES AVAILABLE)
* Pass error message text to ErrorDocument scripts
* Chroot'ing
* Select modules at run time (AddModule)
* Block access by user agent
* Update printenv to display real and effective UID/GID
* Pics module
* NCSA Satisfy functionality
* Negotiation module updates
* Prevent content-type being sent twice if set in hdrs and content_type
field
* Update http_monitor.c to work with current scoreboard format
Paul
UK Web Ltd
Re: Time's a wastin'
Posted by Brian Behlendorf <br...@organic.com>.
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> It's looking more and more like it's time for a public beta release:
> no real additions on the table (except for the AddModule one, which
> I, believe it or not, vote '+1'), and lots of good improvements.
Unqualified +1 - I like the idea, but I haven't tested it, I do trust Tom to
produce good code however. :)
> To speed this along, could someone on hyperreal add the docs to the
> CVS tree? This will make it easier for everyone to maintain them.
I think either Ben or Paul need to do this, as CVS admins. If I can do it,
someone let me know how. If someone can marshall the doc rewriting process
they will certainly be recognized as godlike in these parts... I've collected
together about 30 messages from the last few months related to the docs which
need to be addressed but they're not fundamental issues. That marshaller
should also reconsider our current situation, where we have a lot of
duplication between content in /docs/1.1 and /docs.
What else needs to be done:
1) bug database up for real, if possible. We need to hash out some more on the
interface and assign individuals to specific categories of problems, if
appropriate. I need some gnats gurus to check my work, etc. See previous
message.
2) There are about 25 unresolved issues I've seen over the last three months,
since 1.1. I'll be forwarding them along, with comment. They are mostly small
bugfixes, usually witch patches attached, which somehow we've skipped over, I
think. They were all posted to new-httpd but just got lost in the noise.
> I think we should shoot for a release in a bit over a week: Sept 30th !
I think that's optimistic given the above, but October 7th is doable in my
mind.
Brian
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