Jim Jagielski schrieb: > > On Dec 5, 2008, at 4:21 AM, Paul Querna wrote: > >>> Is there any reason why we must use either APR_LOCK_FCNTL or >>> APR_LOCK_FLOCK, >>> wouldn't the default mutex work? >> >> The default lock mech on OSX is sysvsem. I couldn't get it to work >> properly after forking at all. >> >> Maybe I was doing something wrong, but switching it to flock/fcntl >> works pretty much everywhere, and pretty consistently works even if a >> child crashes. > > This brings up something else I'h hoping to add in: the ability to > change what the "default" mutex is. Many times the compile-time default > isn't right and there are loads of places we simply use the default. > Having a way within httpd/apr which overrules the default would be > quite useful...
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