On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:10:23 +0200 Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > Le 18/06/2013 04:34, Glenn Fowler a écrit : > > > > ast-ksh alpha 2013-06-13 source posted to > > http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha/
> FYI http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/cgi-bin/download.cgi?action=intro > raise : CGIWrap Error: Real UID could not be changed! I've wasted good hacking time time in the last week trying to get around that 7Ki line gitweb.cgi perl script which doesn't play nice with apache cgi per-user process limits as far as I can tell its a perl feature that smells like a DOS attack waiting to happen apparently perl system() and open("|") on detecting EAGAIN repeat indefinitely no exponential backoff, no let the user check errno and do something sane also apparently an msn bot, about 2x/day floods the ast gitweb url and trips the per-user process limit and voila DOS try this at home kids with your own perl cgi I believe a fix is finally in place (for tomorrow) that wraps the perl with a ksh script now I need a shower after rolling around in all that perl > also, ast beta packages seems to be somewhat obsolete right now, > there are 1 year old ! > http://www2.research.att.com/~gsf/download/beta/beta.html from the alpha page: Packages with size - are no longer alpha and can be downloaded (most likely with a different release YYYY-MM-DD) from the beta package download page or the official package download page. from the beta page: Packages with size - are either still alpha or can be downloaded (most likely with a different release YYYY-MM-DD) from the official package download page. 2012-08-06 went from beta to official, emptying out beta since then we have been in alpha mode with a lot of new code pending another week of testing the alphas will go beta
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