From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: dank@kegel.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dank@alumni.caltech.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] khttpd crash fix, take 3
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 12:21:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020826122155.A25069@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208260329.g7Q3T8h16233@kegel.com>; from dank@kegel.com on Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 08:29:08PM -0700
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..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-26 11:17 UTC|newest]
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2002-08-26 3:29 dank
2002-08-26 11:21 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-08-26 3:44 dank
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