Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-new-httpd-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 36830 invoked by uid 500); 1 Mar 2000 20:28:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact new-httpd-help@apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes Reply-To: new-httpd@apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list new-httpd@apache.org Received: (qmail 36817 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2000 20:28:50 -0000 Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 15:28:48 -0500 (EST) From: rbb@apache.org X-Sender: rbb@shell.ntrnet.net To: new-httpd@apache.org, trawickj@bellsouth.net Subject: Re: changing prefork.c to use apr locks for the accept mutex In-Reply-To: <200003012022.PAA00686@k5.localdomain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: rbb@shell.ntrnet.net X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N The only reason is nobody has had the time or inclination to do it yet. :-) Ryan On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Jeff Trawick wrote: > Any reason not to change prefork.c to use apr locks > instead of its own choice of locks for the accept mutex? > > One issue is that prefork.c supports an additional mechanism -- > Irix's usconfig() mutex -- which can only be used on Irix and should > only be used on MP systems. Supposedly the usconfig() mutexes > are an "order of magnitude faster than the SysV-semaphore code," > so it seems worth trying to roll it into apr. Unfortunately I > don't see an Irix system anywhere nearby :) > > -- > Jeff Trawick | trawick@ibm.net | PGP public key at web site: > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Park/9289/ > Born in Roswell... married an alien... > Come to the first official Apache Software Foundation Conference!!! _______________________________________________________________________________ Ryan Bloom rbb@ntrnet.net 2121 Stonehenge Dr. Apt #3 Raleigh, NC 27615 Ryan Bloom -- thinker, adventurer, artist, writer, but mostly, friend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------