NCSA 1.5.2 bug fix to server hanging

mike (baptiste@nortel.ca)
03 Dec 1996 08:00 EST 

Message-Id: <199612031834.NAA29051@relay.openmarket.com>
Date: 03 Dec 1996 08:00 EST 
To: mvg@iastate.edu
From: "mike (m.) baptiste" <baptiste@nortel.ca>
Subject: NCSA 1.5.2 bug fix to server hanging

NCSA's server has a bug that causes these hangs.  Patch the fcgi.c file 
with this tiny patch.  It should solve your problems:

Alan Sparks writes:
  |Has anybody gotten FastCGI 1.5 to work with NCSA 1.5.2?  I compiled
  |with the -DFCGI stuff, fixed a missing #include for sys/time.h, had
  |to define a strerror() function (I patched one up using sys_errlist).
  |Finally got a clean build.
  |
  |But, after setting up the tiny-perl-fcgi stuff, the browser hangs.
  |I've gotten Apache to work with it, but never NCSA.
  |
  |Anybody have a battle story they'd like to share, or a good binary
  |for SunOS 4.1.4 I could borrow?  I feel ugly about the fact that
  |it doesn't build without first dorking with it... :(

 Try this patch. It works for 1.5.2 & 1.5.2a 

 *** fcgi.c      Tue Jun 25 17:30:24 1996
 --- ../../SSLhttpd_1.5.2/src/fcgi.c     Mon Jul 15 17:56:44 1996
 ***************
 *** 2287,2293 ****
       else
         FD_CLR(csdOut, &write_set);

 !     select_status = select(numFDs, &read_set, &write_set, NULL, NULL);
       if(select_status < 0)
         break;

 --- 2303,2309 ----
       else
         FD_CLR(csdOut, &write_set);

 !     select_status = select(numFDs, &read_set, &write_set, NULL, 
&timeOut);
       if(select_status < 0)
         break;

Mike Baptiste
baptiste@nortel.ca

In message "Stalling? hanging? Permission denied?", mvg@iastate.edu writes:

> 
>I *appear* to have everything running. However, when I try to
>access the script tiny-perl.fcgi I get permission denied errors.
>If I go to /tmp and change
>  srwxr-xr-x  1 root            0 Dec  2 23:09 OM_WS_1.6097=
>to
>  srwxr-xr-x  1 nobody          0 Dec  2 23:09 OM_WS_1.6097=
>the process hangs or stalls.
>
>Does anyone know what is going on here???? I assume this is a
>quick fix. It may have something to do with the server forking
>off processes as nobody, but the fcgi-app processes are owned
>by root? Maybe thats the problem?
>
>Any help is much appreciated!!!!
>
>Server NCSA/1.5.2a
>DEC-ultrix4.3
>Perl5.00307 with FCGI-0.26
>
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