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Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 09:20:57 -0600
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From: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCE] Apache 2.0.44 Released
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At 08:07 AM 1/21/2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:
>Sander Striker [mailto:striker@apache.org] wrote:
>
>First, congrats with 2.0.44 ;)

Glad you like it.  I'm forwarding your email to the docs@httpd.apache.org
list, since the docs are now a subproject in their own right (though some
of the same individuals follow this list, most discussion about changes 
and improvements to the docs occurs on that list.)

And yes, I agree that's another good point to raise in the docs.

>>  *) Introduce the EnableSendfile directive, allowing users of NFS
>>     shares to disable sendfile mechanics when they either fail
>>     outright or provide intermitantly corrupted data.  PR
>>     [William Rowe]
>
>Shouldn't this also be noted as the fix for:
>"IPv6 enabled version doesn't output any data on some NIC's and linux"
>
>As mentioned in the following threads:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/new-httpd/message/41447
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/new-httpd/message/41485
>
>The general fix with 2.0.43 was to use --disable-sendfile too.
>This option is thus also meant for Linux users who have a NIC
>which behaves strange when sendfile() is enabled along with IPv6.
>
>Also I can't find any mention of it in the docs
>(http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/)
>
>Greets,
> Jeroen