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Date:      Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:45:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>
To:        Dominic Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907160044300.16167-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990716084229.A48601@palmerharvey.co.uk>

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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Dominic Mitchell wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 12:06:19AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Even given the existance of the evil "configure" program I really
> > doubt the Apache people aren't (very) wise to this.
> 
> Evil configure program?
> 
> I find gnu configure scripts to be a blessing, but I'm merely an
> administrator...
> 
> Please explain what is so awful about them.

Apache doesn't use autoconf (it's on the TODO for 2.0, I'm told).  It uses
a collection of shell scripts that are, to be quite honest, quite evil.
They work well enough, I guess...

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tani hosokawa
river styx internet




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