On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Mladen Turk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jeff Trawick wrote:
>
>>
>> (no plans here to touch WinNT MPMs, and I don't see any compelling reason
>> to leave it broken; it should build as before once the inevitable minor
>> slips are corrected)
>>
>>
> The major problem with that is the huge amount of platform
> dependent code for managing the service, registry and fork.
> (Although -k install and -k uninstall could be a separate
>  utility app)


Maybe its the lack of sleep, but I see that as a separate code reuse issue.
 I'm not trying to address code reuse with this effort, except with minor
details where the solution to cutting the ties to the MPM involves a shared
definition.


> You could probably consider adding extra hooks that won't
> do anything on *nix but would allow to easily plug the
> NT mpm in this new layout.
> If you go from the WinNT requirements, the *nix would fit
> easily in this schema with just few no-ops for launching the
> child process and sending the sockets, etc...
>


Help me understand why this isn't orthogonal to cutting the hard-coded tie
to the built-inMPM ;)

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