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Date:      Tue, 21 May 2002 09:41:43 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, dg@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Apache + threads under FreeBSD ...
Message-ID:  <20020521164143.GG54960@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020521131417.O12810-100000@mail1.hub.org>
References:  <20020521131417.O12810-100000@mail1.hub.org>

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CC'd to David.

David Greenman was going to backport a fix, but I stalled him because
of backwards compatbility.  Since I haven't had the time to implement
the "osendfile" compat syscall, I'd like to know if he'll be MFC'ing the
fix or if I should do it?

-Alfred

* The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> [020521 09:18] wrote:
> 
> I'm looking at getting a threaded Apache working under FreeBSD-STABLE (as
> of this past weekend) ... if I start up the server and connect with a
> browser, it doesn't send anything back, *except* if I kill the apache
> server right after the connection ...
> 
> I've checked with the Apache folk, and someone pointed me to the STATUS
> file, where I found:
> 
> ============
>     * Generate a good bug report to send to the FreeBSD hackers that details
>       the problems we have seen with threads and system calls (specifically
>       sendfile data is corrupted).  From our analysis so far, we don't think
>       that this is an APR issue, but rather a FreeBSD kernel issue.  Our
>       current solution is to just disable threads across the board on
>       FreeBSD.
> 
>       MsgID: <20010828091959.D17570@ebuilt.com>
>         Status: Fixed in -CURRENT.  MFC in about a week.  Continuing
>                 testing with threads on FreeBSD.
> 
>                 FreeBSD PR kern/32684:
>                   http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/32684
> ==============
> 
> Reading the PR, alfred put a fix in place shortly after (~mid December of
> 2001), but I'm wondering if anyone knows whether this was migrated back
> down to -STABLE, and, if not, what would be involved to have that done?
> Is it a fix that *can* be MFCd?

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