Steve Hay wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble with the infamous Win32 startup hang problem.
> 
[...]
> I've created a simple program to emit the pass phrase [...]
> This works fine if I start Apache with "-X" (single process), but
> doesn't help if I don't use the "-X" option: I get no prompt to enter
> anything, but the server still hangs and now even entering the pass
> phrase "blind" doesn't work anymore.
> 
This is indeed a known problem. I traced it in a debugger once. It turns
out modssl never gets to see the information your password program
prints because of I/O redirection problems. It's an Apache problem. If I
remember correctly, Kirk Benson did provide a patch (passing the actual
I/O pointers rather than NULL at some place where Apache spawns a child
process), and after that, again if I remember correctly, the password
program did work for him. Since we worked around the problem in another
way, I have not yet come to trying out the patch myself, but I suggest
you look back for Kirk's messages in the archive and try it out.

Regards,
Jan Dries
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