On Thursday 21 June 2007 10:51, Alex Landau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Another round of fixes to httpd for no-MMU.
> httpd can't work in non-inetd mode since it is required to fork for each 
> connection.
> There are 2 approaches I can think of:
> 1. The correct one: on connection, the parent vforks and the child reexecs 
> itself to
> serve the connection.
> 2. The easy one: require -i (inetd mode) and #ifdef the code that prevents 
> compilation on
> no-mmu (the code running bb_daemonize).
> 
> The attached patch goes the second way for 2 reasons. First, the second way 
> is much
> easier, so we get a working httpd. Second, I'm not sure that it's benefiting 
> to reexec
> httpd on every connection, since inetd does exactly that. And, of course, the 
> most
> important reason: I'm lazy ;-)
> 
> Alex
> 
> P.S. On compilation a warning shows telling that openServer() is defined but 
> not used.
> This function is used only in non-inetd mode. I did not wrap it in #if 
> !BB_MMU since if
> later someone goes with way 1 (above), he'll need it, and since it's static, 
> it does not
> reach the .o file.

Well, removing #if wouldn't be hard too ;) so I added #if/#endif block.

Applied to svn, thanks.
--
vda
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