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Subject: Re: mod_slotmem and mod_proxy_balancer/others on win32 (PR52402)
From: Jim Jagielski <jim@apache.org>
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Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:02:35 -0500
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Under Win32, do the 2 processes know which is which?

On Feb 3, 2012, at 5:46 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote:

> 
> On Feb 3, 2012, at 4:25 AM, Mladen Turk wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> mod_slotmem cannot work on windows by design.
>> 
>> On windows we have two processes so the storage->grab/slotmem_grab
>> will always fail because the inuse flag was already set in the parent,
>> and since this is shared memory child will see it as used.
>> On unixes fork is used so the inuse is set only once.
>> 
> 
> I'm trying to understand this... how is this different from any of
> the other mpms which also have at least 2 processes? 
>