indeed it does use APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE. thanks for looking. jon
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: > Jonathan Gold wrote: > > > i'm not a great C programmer, but i think i understand, from the > > comments on the method which creates the mutex, that an actual file is > > used only if the operating system needs it to implement the locking. > > correct > > your Linux build is probably defaulting to SysV semaphores*, and mod_rewrite > uses the default mutex type; thus, there is no file associated with that > mod_rewrite mutex > > *verify by seeing if apachectl -V displays "-D APR_USE_SYSVSEM_SERIALIZE" >