Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:21:55 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] khttpd crash fix, take 3 |
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On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 08:29:08PM -0700, dank@kegel.com wrote: > 1. An oops in DecodeHeader where Buffer[CPUNR] is NULL, happened > whenever a worker thread was restarted after being stopped. > (The worker thread frees its buffer on exit, but the manager thread > neglected to allocate a buffer for the worker thread when restarting it.) > 2. A bug that caused worker threads to be spuriously restarted once > on startup (this made the previous bug much worse). > 3. The end-user had to do a "sleep 1" after stopping the daemon > before restarting it. This was not documented, and was rather confusing. > 4. There was no entry in /usr/src/linux/Documentation for khttpd, > and beginning users sometimes could not find the documentation.
BTW: would you step up as khttpd maintainer? It seems no ones else cares for it and it's always good to have someone to drop patches/complaints at..
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