The following patch reverts to the previous and documented
bevahiour (exhibited by 1.3). Currently <!--exec cmd
does not work with suexec enabled as the proc.c will try to
run : shell -c suexec uid gid ... so on.
Index: os/unix/unixd.c
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RCS file: /home/cvspublic/httpd-2.0/os/unix/unixd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -u -r1.52 unixd.c
--- os/unix/unixd.c 17 May 2002 11:33:10 -0000 1.52
+++ os/unix/unixd.c 20 May 2002 23:59:53 -0000
@@ -357,6 +357,15 @@
newargs[2] = execgroup;
newargs[3] = apr_pstrdup(p, progname);
+ /*
+ ** using a shell to execute suexec makes no sense thus
+ ** we force everything to be APR_PROGRAM, and never
+ ** APR_SHELLCMD
+ */
+ if(apr_procattr_cmdtype_set(attr, APR_PROGRAM) != APR_SUCCESS) {
+ return APR_EGENERAL;
+ }
+
i = 0;
do {
newargs[i + 4] = args[i];
