Return-Path: Delivered-To: new-httpd-archive@hyperreal.org Received: (qmail 28449 invoked by uid 6000); 21 Sep 1998 16:52:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 28440 invoked from network); 21 Sep 1998 16:52:29 -0000 Received: from twinlark.arctic.org (204.62.130.91) by taz.hyperreal.org with SMTP; 21 Sep 1998 16:52:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 11602 invoked by uid 500); 21 Sep 1998 16:52:11 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:52:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Dean Gaudet To: new-httpd@apache.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: apache-1.3/src/modules/standard mod_auth_db.module mod_auth_db.c In-Reply-To: <199809211639.MAA03151@devsys.jaguNET.com> Message-ID: X-Comment: Visit http://www.arctic.org/~dgaudet/legal for information regarding copyright and disclaimer. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: new-httpd-owner@apache.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org Another thing to look at would be perl... The only thing I feel strongly about is that db2 sucks. I'm not saying we should hold the release for this. Dean On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Dean Gaudet wrote: > > > > Maybe sendmail does the same thing. > > > > Dean > > Yeah... I'll have to look. Someone said that with db2, the db1 functions > are actually wrappers for the db2 ones and this appears to be the case. > In this case, even using the db1 function calls, the underlaying database > still uses the db2 format. So it's not only knowing which function to > use, but whether it's a wrapper or not, which is way complex :( > > > > > On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > > > Dean Gaudet wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > > > > > > > > OTOH when someone upgrades system components like libc he > > > > > really should be aware of such incompatibilities, shouldn't he? > > > > > If we can fix it easily, we should do it, of course. But how? > > > > > > > > Even if db 2.0 is installed, use db 1.85. > > > > > > > > > > I thought about this possibility when I brought this up before, but > > > surely in this case we aren't the only such program affected. If they > > > use sendmail, then they would be just as affected with any db files they > > > might be using (aliases, etc...). :/ > > > > > > -- > > > =========================================================================== > > > Jim Jagielski ||| jim@jaguNET.com ||| http://www.jaguNET.com/ > > > "That's no ordinary rabbit... that's the most foul, > > > cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever laid eyes on" > > > > > > > > > > -- > =========================================================================== > Jim Jagielski ||| jim@jaguNET.com ||| http://www.jaguNET.com/ > "That's no ordinary rabbit... that's the most foul, > cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever laid eyes on" >