Re: cvs commit: httpd-2.0/server/mpm/winnt child.c mpm_winnt.c mpm_winnt.h

[Bill Stoddard]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ake         2003/03/04 14:15:52

  Modified:    .        CHANGES
               server/mpm/winnt child.c mpm_winnt.c mpm_winnt.h
  Log:
  Added the WindowsSocketsWorkaroud directive for Windows NT/2000/XP
  to work around problems with certain VPN and Firewall products that
  have buggy AcceptEx implementations
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.1103    +5 -0      httpd-2.0/CHANGES
  
<snip>

   
   static const command_rec winnt_cmds[] = {
   LISTEN_COMMANDS,
  @@ -224,6 +243,9 @@
     "Number of threads each child creates" ),
   AP_INIT_TAKE1("ThreadLimit", set_thread_limit, NULL, RSRC_CONF,
     "Maximum worker threads in a server for this run of Apache"),
  +AP_INIT_TAKE1("WindowsSocketsWorkaround", set_sockets_workaround, NULL, RSRC_CONF,
  +  "Set \"on\" to work around buggy Winsock provider implementations of certain VPN or Firewall software"),
  +
   { NULL }
   };
Rather than WindowsSocketsWorkaround, why not WinUseWinsock1 or ??. It 
would be better I think if the directive somehow indicated exactly what 
it was doing (causing the winnt mpm to use the select/accept winsock1 
calls rather than AcceptEx, a winsock2 call).

Bill