Re: Oh sod it

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

The thought occurs to me...

I wonder if some of these strange results seen in mod_status
are due to caching issues on platforms that don't support an
mmapped scoreboard file?


>   and I thought of semaphores.
> 
> ... which are, unfortunately, not supported on certain oddball
> systems.  The solutions involving the scoreboard which Ben and I have
> been discussing have the advantage that they can be made to work just
> about anyplace, including lowest-common-denominator v7+sockets systems
> which don't even have any useful shared memory (and on which the
> scoreboard is kept in a file).
> 
> They also keep all subprocess management in one place --- coordinating
> the activities of the child server processes is the *purpose* of the
> scoreboard, after all, and it's good engineering to reuse the existing
> machinery, rather than set up something new, if possible...
> 
> rst