On 08/23/2007 09:36 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Ruediger Pluem wrote: >> On 08/22/2007 01:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Author: wrowe >>> Date: Tue Aug 21 16:28:32 2007 >>> New Revision: 568326 >>> >>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=568326&view=rev >>> Log: >>> Refactor r452431, because this should not be fatal to starting >>> the server if it's horribly broken. The alternative of returing >>> 'rc' in this case would be to open /dev/null as the error stream >>> for this generation of the server; and even more useless result. >> Where do you see that /dev/null will be used as the error stream in this >> case? >> As far as I can see if log_child returns something different than APR_SUCCESS >> the whole open_logs hook fails and causes the process to die. > > The original patch was dying on win32 as-a-service, because > apr_file_open_stdout > fails without a stdout handle.
Ok, just for a non windows guy to understand: If httpd runs as a service we usually have no stdout handle and thus apr_file_open_stdout fails, correct? > > Now, I fixed blessing win32 services with a stdout handle /Device/null. > That much is now healthy. Fixed in r568446, correct? > > As I got to thinking about this, when the situation is this fatal, why kill > an otherwise perfectly healthy server? Worst case, we have some piped loggers > which hang around longer than desired. It's a situation which I wouldn't > want to bring down a production server for. Ok, so the situation, that you cannot get the stdout handle, is very unlikely to happen after you fixed the windows stdout problem, correct? So if we deal with hanging piped loggers something else got terribly wrong. Regards Rüdiger
