Re: bug found mod_dtcl 0.8.12 - child catches segmentation fault

["David N. Welton" <da...@apache.org>]

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Johnny Mnemonic <jo...@themnemonic.org> writes:

> Greetings
> I was playing with some tcl code on my website using your mod_dtcl, and i 
> found out that in some cases the apache child dies
> on the errorlog i see:
> [Tue Feb 13 21:42:03 2001] [notice] child pid 663 exit signal Segmentation 
> fault (11)

> apache version: 1.3.17
> mod_dtcl version: 0.8.12
> The bug:
> I found out that it was simply the call to the Tcl function <+ Exit 0 +> to 
> cause the apache's segfault

Exit is probably just something to avoid.  You could use return
instead.

Maybe I'll make a wrapper for exit so that it doesn't do anything.  It
doesn't segfault the version of mod_dtcl I'm running, the one out of
CVS.

> I think that you had a great idea to implement a server-side tcl
> language, because it's very simple and i would like to promote on my
> webserver.  I will be pleased to help as i can if you want it.

The first thing is to subscribe to the mailing list, and jump in where
you see you can do something to help out.

Thankyou,
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