Oden Eriksson wrote:
tisdagen den 14 februari 2006 14.19 skrev Jim Gallacher:
Oden Eriksson wrote:
Hello.
In our package in Mandriva I patch mod_python.c so that the mutex stuff
is put in "/var/cache/httpd/mod_python/". But now with mod_python-3.2.7
plus fixes from the trunk and running the test suite it complains it
cannot access "/var/cache/httpd/mod_python/" (of course). So my
question/request is, could you please make this directory set in the
config?
I assume you mean as an option to configure, rather than as an Apache
configuration directive?
I meant as an apache configuration directive.
After giving this some thought I think it should be both, so the options
become:
1. Default /tmp
2. --configure --with-mutex-dir=/some/directory
Allows distributions to package mod_python according to their
platform specification, without the need for applying any patches.
3. PythonMutexDir /some/place
This would mainly be used in the unit tests to override the setting
applied by option #2. This avoids Oden's unit test problem which is
similar to the problem described in MODPYTHON-119, where the unit test
defaults may conflict with a mod_python instance running on the server.
I wonder if we should generalize this, so rather than PythonMutexDir, we
have PythonModuleConfig. Usage might look like:
PythonModuleConfig mutex_dir /path/to/mutexs
PythonModuleConfig max_mutex_locks 8
Currently the number of mutex locks is set with ./configure --with-max-locks
By the way Oden, are you the offical mod_python maintainer on Mandriva?
Jim
