Re: is fastcgi dead? say it ain't so
Jonathan Roy (roy@atlantic.net)
Tue, 20 May 1997 10:45:20 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970520104520.0068c09c@mail.atlantic.net>
Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 10:45:20 -0400
To: Mario Jorge Filipe - LEI <mjnf@students.si.fct.unl.pt>,
From: Jonathan Roy <roy@atlantic.net>
Subject: Re: is fastcgi dead? say it ain't so
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970520094817.329B-100000@students.si.fct.unl
At 09:51 AM 5/20/97 +0000, Mario Jorge Filipe - LEI wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Just to say that i'm quite worried too. I'm developing (with
>another person) a WWW project where FCGI is essencial to the good work of
>the project.
>
> Someone at OpenMarket said that it would take a while now before
>any updates because the main man (the guy that was developing FCGI) quit
>and the other guys had to look into the code before they could do
>anything, but this is no reason for OPENMARKEt's silence.
>
Ah, that's a bummer. We use FastCGI a lot and will continue to do so. If
OpenMarket doesn't maintain the Apache/perl FastCGI stuff, maybe others
will eventually take over. So far we've fixed the Solaris accept() problem
and added ./configure style support to make the correct fcgi_config.h file,
as well as fixed a missing unlink() problem in mod_fastcgi.c that could
cause the fastcgi parent process to die. Both have been sent to the list
(although I haven't seen the big fix appear from the list yet).
I can only hope that whomever maintains FastCGI at OpenMarket these days
will apply the patches, and release a new FCGI perl module (.29 or
something), and a new mod_fastcgi.c so others who aren't on this list can
benefit from the fixes.
Regardless of OM's support, we'll keep using FastCGI, and will end up
fixing/improving things as needed if noone else does so first. ;)
-Jonathan
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