The following reply was made to PR general/1181; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Charles Howes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: general/1181: Too many virtual hosts cause cgi scripts to stop working Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Well I tried to avoid the need for that in 1.2.1 ... by using fcntl(F_DUPFD) to move all the log file and socket descriptors above 15. The code that does that should log (I don't think it does now) an error message when it can't ... 'cause that's when Apache does know you're probably close to trouble. That'd make it only log once per reboot and impose no performance difficulties ... and probably be portable enough. Hmm. Dean On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Charles Howes wrote: > Hey, what happens if you open and close /dev/null a couple of times > just after all the log files and sockets have been opened? That'd be > just as good as doing it at any other time, wouldn't it?