Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 21:04:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] NT CGI fix
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On Sat, 16 May 1998, Ben Laurie wrote:

> 6. With all that out of the way, I decided to disable the other methods
> of spawning children (since they are unsafe, after all). This leads to
> other interesting problems, like piped logs and mod_rewrite no longer
> working, so I've enabled them again for now. However, they will need to
> be eliminated.

Gee, have you looked at apache-nspr?  I've already dealt with all of this.
i.e. you're doing 2.0 things in 1.3.

> 7. Now the good news: it seems to work. I'll be committing what I've
> done shortly (I hope).

I hope not.  If you've broken all that stuff then I certainly hope you
didn't committ it.

> Did I ever mention this would all be much neater in C++? :-)

And gee, it would be so much neater if we got to redesign the C interface
as well?  If you're going to compare apples to apples you can't compare an
unchanged, legacy, crappy C interface to a newly designed C++ interface.

Dean