William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > rj...@apache.org wrote: >> Author: rjung >> Date: Thu May 14 19:13:17 2009 >> New Revision: 774884 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=774884&view=rev >> Log: >> Revert r774755: ap_server_root_relative() for >> >> piped loggers is nonsense. It doesn't work when >> the logger path contains whitespace. > > Ok; not sure what you mean here. All of the following work today > provided the cwd is the path of httpd root; > > ErrorLog "|/opt/apache\ server/bin/rotatelogs logs/foo.log 1M" > ErrorLog "|"c:\program files\apache\bin\rotatelogs" logs/foo.log 1M" > ErrorLog "|bin/rotatelogs logs/foo.log 1M" > > Now even if the good intentions of the patch helped to resolve the > program-path, it doesn't help to solve the other argv elts which > represent paths. The solution is for the cwd to be the server root. > >> We already allow relative paths because we open >> the log program via the shell. > > :)
Caviat; you might be looking for this API to ensure correct behavior; http://apr.apache.org/docs/apr/1.3/group__apr__thread__proc.html#g97766f50b0ae083a2f8a28e698a59baa
