Re: latest devkits missing accept()-related fixes
Gerardo Diaz Cuellar (gdiaz@blackbox.cegs.itesm.mx)
Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:48:20 -0600 (GMT-0600)
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 12:48:20 -0600 (GMT-0600)
From: Gerardo Diaz Cuellar <gdiaz@blackbox.cegs.itesm.mx>
To: Jonathan Roy <roy@atlantic.net>
Subject: Re: latest devkits missing accept()-related fixes
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19970911180810.00771760@rio.atlantic.net>
Message-Id: <Pine.NXT.3.91.970912124740.5403A-100000@blackbox>
So where are Chip's pathces and when are these going to be included on
the devkits?
Regards
-Gerardo
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Jonathan Roy wrote:
>
> At 04:43 PM 9/11/97 -0400, Stanley Gambarin wrote:
> >
> > (2) is still "maintined" by OpenMarket, but as far as I know,
> >the accept() fix was NOT put in the latest developer kit (i may be
> >mistaken, so Roy, if you can check it against whatever is on the
> >website www.fastcgi.com... would appreacite it).
> >
>
> I checked it 'cause of your comment. The 1.5.1 and 2.0b2 devkits on the
> web site do NOT have the accept() fix which can cause it to lockup on
> Solaris (and maybe IRIX). (The problem where lots of processes will quickly
> die won't be seen until the accept is fixed, since it'll lock up before
> they can start dying, but Chip's second patch fixes both problems.)
> Fortunantly, Idle only does fastcgi in perl for now, so the fixes being in
> FCGI 0.31 helps.
>
> The patches were reposted to the list on 6-18-97, by Sonya. That they
> still aren't in the official devkits after nearly 3 months is extremely
> disappointing.
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Roy - roy@idle.com - Idle Communications, Inc.
> Idle Communications, Inc. accepts contract programming
> work for general purpose tools (or CGI) in Perl/C/C++.
>
>