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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:25:00 -0700
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
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Subject: Re: removing httpd -X from 1.3 environment
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Geoffrey Young wrote:
> hi all...
> 
> I was thinking recently about how with 2.0 we rely on MaxClients to 
> control the number of child processes, but with 1.3 we rely on httpd -X.
> 
> I'm not sure that we need to limit the ability of 1.3 to run multiple 
> children if somebody comes up with a test that requires it.  and we all 
> know that httpd -X is not the same as running with a single child, so 
> whatever the test suite is doing is not really the same as a real 
> environment.
> 
> I'm thinking/hoping that -X is a carryover from the old Apache::test 
> environment, and nobody actually relies on -X behaviors (which would be 
> a bad testing practice anyway :)
> 
> at any rate, here is a patch that changes httpd -X to a setting that 
> defaults to MaxClients 1.  I get the same results from the 
> perl-framework with and without the change (lots of failures currently, 
> but they are the same failures with both setups).
> 
> as far as changed behaviors, the only thing I noticed was that if some 
> perl libraries cannot be found, the startup times out and the @INC 
> errors are placed in the error_log.  without the patch the @INC error is 
> shown and the server exits immediately.  the good thing (for me, anyway) 
> is that r->child_terminate now works, allowing the server to change 
> children mid-test :)

+1

apache-1.3 tests fails the same way for me.

I did successfully run Apache::Peek tests with your patch under 1.3.

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