Paul Sutton wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Paul Sutton wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Ben Laurie wrote:
> > > Hmmm ... well, we can default the path to something without spaces for
> > > now (I think that isn't too painful), and hope not too many people
> > > change it to something with spaces. The fix isn't that hard, just
> > > totally digusting, and haven't had the time to do it (and I'm cooking
> > > major Chinese this evening, so I won't have the time today :-).
> >
> > I've already sent a patch for this. It results in the lose of memory
> > thought at the moment. If Windows is so braindead we really need to code
> > around it, we'll need to pass the parent's pool into the function which
> > spawns children.
>
> Ok, here is a slightly better patch. This doesn't waste space. We don't
> care about performance since this function is only called to create child
> processes, while most work is done by creating threads inside in a single
> process. Win32 must have the world's worst implementation of spawn().
The snag here is that this only fixes the launch of standby Apaches, but
surely we need to fix _all_ occurences of spawn? I'll try to do a more
general fix.
Cheers,
Ben.
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