Hi -- It's been ages since I wrote to the list; as always, my apologies. I hope to get back to some actual programming soon, unless life gets in the way again.
In the meantime, a quick note for anyone who might at some point stumble over the same thing and go to Google for help. I set up a simple Apache httpd with mod_authn_file and mod_authn_basic, and the darn thing was crashing while trying to authenticate the user. A trace revealed it was crashing in apr_password_validate() on a memset() on a crypt_data struct buffer from for use with crypt_r(). Huh? I stared at the definition of crypt_data in crypt.h, poked around at various things, then gave up and went for quick bike ride. The answer immediately popped to mind: I'd set my ThreadStackSize really low, to 64 KB, and while that usually lets you run without trouble on a Linux box, crypt_data contains about 256 KB worth of arrays and it was overflowing the per-thread stack. Live and learn. Chris. -- GPG Key ID: 088335A9 GPG Key Fingerprint: 86CD 3297 7493 75BC F820 6715 F54F E648 0883 35A9
