ExtendedStatus On as core directive in trunk?

2009-01-15 Thread trawick
It is currently necessary to load/protect mod_status so that some other module can use the extended status information in the scoreboard. mod_status is by far the most common use of the extended status. The comment in mod_status explains the reason why it is a mod_status directive: /* *

Re: mod_backtrace and mod_whatkilledus to trunk?

2009-01-15 Thread Eric Covener
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:31 AM, traw...@gmail.com wrote: These are in the 1.3.x branch but not trunk. From the number of hits on the web I'd guess that some folks have made tweaks to them but there's no obvious place to maintain those tweaks. (I've received a patch or two via e-mail before.)

Longevity of versions

2009-01-15 Thread rts
how long will version 2.0 be available for use? Always? or until a certain date generally speaking? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Longevity-of-versions-tp21479665p21479665.html Sent from the Apache HTTP Server - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: mod_backtrace and mod_whatkilledus to trunk?

2009-01-15 Thread Nick Kew
traw...@gmail.com wrote: Specific proposal: Take what is in 1.3 branch and port to trunk. This should be very close to http://people.apache.org/~trawick/mod_backtrace.c and http://people.apache.org/~trawick/mod_whatkilledus.c +1 in principle How do you propose to deal with configuration?

Re: Apache Shutdown - Win32

2009-01-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Thomas Steinbach wrote: Hello, I have a small win32 program which starts and stops apache (win) as a program (not service) in a hidden console. Well, httpd should work fine, but... void StartApache() { g_sia.dwFlags = STARTF_USESHOWWINDOW; g_sia.wShowWindow = SW_HIDE; ... does not

Re: Longevity of versions

2009-01-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
rts wrote: how long will version 2.0 be available for use? Always? or until a certain date generally speaking? Forever. It's open source, if it's broke, you get to keep both pieces (and fix them if you like). If you see http://archives.apache.org/ the foundation generally makes source code

Re: Re: mod_backtrace and mod_whatkilledus to trunk?

2009-01-15 Thread trawick
On Jan 15, 2009 11:16am, Nick Kew n...@webthing.com wrote: How do you propose to deal with configuration? Specifically, the interaction with enable-exception-hook, which means that a server built without it breaks the expectation that new modules can be added using apxs? I may

Re: Longevity of versions

2009-01-15 Thread Paul Querna
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: rts wrote: how long will version 2.0 be available for use? Always? or until a certain date generally speaking? Forever. It's open source, if it's broke, you get to keep both pieces (and fix them if you like). If you see http://archives.apache.org/ the foundation

Re: mod_backtrace and mod_whatkilledus to trunk?

2009-01-15 Thread Nick Kew
traw...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 15, 2009 11:16am, Nick Kew n...@webthing.com wrote: How do you propose to deal with configuration? Specifically, the interaction with enable-exception-hook, which means that a server built without it breaks the expectation that new modules can be

Re: mod_backtrace and mod_whatkilledus to trunk?

2009-01-15 Thread Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nick Kew Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2009 18:27 An: dev@httpd.apache.org Betreff: Re: mod_backtrace and mod_whatkilledus to trunk? traw...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 15, 2009 11:16am, Nick Kew n...@webthing.com wrote: How do you propose

Re: Longevity of versions

2009-01-15 Thread rts
Thank you for answering the question that I should have asked. Paul Querna wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: rts wrote: how long will version 2.0 be available for use? Always? or until a certain date generally speaking? Forever. It's open source, if it's broke, you get to keep both

Re: mod_backtrace and mod_whatkilledus to trunk?

2009-01-15 Thread Jeff Trawick
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group ruediger.pl...@vodafone.com wrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Nick Kew Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2009 18:27 An: dev@httpd.apache.org Betreff: Re: mod_backtrace and mod_whatkilledus to trunk?

Re: mod_backtrace and mod_whatkilledus to trunk?

2009-01-15 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 01/15/2009 07:39 PM, Jeff Trawick wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Plüm, Rüdiger, VF-Group ruediger.pl...@vodafone.com wrote: Another option would be to add this hook by default and prevent its execution by a directive (haven't dug into this to check if this is possible).

Re: Longevity of versions

2009-01-15 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Paul Querna wrote: However, I expect if there was a critical security vulnerability, we would at least provide patches, and/or do a release -- lots of peoples jobs are still tied to 2.0.x :-) Right - the question is more between bug fixes (possibly disruptive to the user and certainly

[Patch] Reliable error logs for trunk

2009-01-15 Thread Rainer Jung
httpd has a feature called reliable piped logs. When a log process like rotatelogs dies, httpd automatically restarts it. This can be used to close open log files from outside httpd by simply killing rotatelogs. This procedure does not work for the error logs, because those are started with a