On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Jeff Trawick <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Jeff Trawick <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> The 2.4 STATUS file has:
>>>
>>>    * opinion on more complete DefaultRuntimeDir use in 2.4.x?
>>>      o If a module has a config directive for the run-time file that
>>>        treats the configured path as relative to server root, preserve
>>>        that behavior but change the location when not configured to
>>>        respect DefaultRuntimeDir.  With these changes, users with no
>>>        per-runtime-file configuration directives can control
>>>        everything with DefaultRuntimeDir.
>>>        BUT: Existing users of DefaultRuntimeDir might get a short-term
>>> scare
>>>        when some unconfigured run-time file starts respecting their
>>>        DefaultRuntimeDir directive after an upgrade.
>>>        +1: trawick, jim, rjung
>>>        rjung: applicable trunk revisions WITHOUT the compatibility tweaks
>>>               described above:
>>>           scoreboard         r1369477
>>>           core/pid file      r1369808
>>>           core/mutex         r1370288
>>>           mod_socache_XXX    r1370225, r1407385
>>>           mod_ldap           r1371684
>>>           mod_cache          r1407381
>>>           mod_slotmem_plain  r1370763
>>>         igalic: We have three votes, what's the status here?
>>>        Independently, backport any doc tweaks to 2.4 API migration page.
>>>
>>> To be honest, I also wonder what the status of this is...
>>> I'd like to have the 1st 3 in 2.4, but am unsure what is
>>> required, if anything, to make it acceptable. Is it just
>>> the "preserve" line?
>>>
>>
>>
>> I think that we've already backported everything we can without risking a
>> change in the meaning of someone's configuration.  DefaultRuntimeDir
>> can/should be used for new additions to 2.4 when appropriate, but these
>> remaining ones are dangerous without some 2.4-specific mitigation.
>>
>> I'll try to look through this in the next day to see if there is some
>> mitigation we can do to allow the feature without breaking any current 2.4
>> behavior.  I fear that a "safe" implementation would require some explicit
>> opt-in for these remaining features, and a config that did the opt-in could
>> then move all the runtime files just by changing DefaultRuntimeDir.
>>
>
> Wow, days go by quick if you're learning cmake and shaking the rust off
> your Windows-ability...
>
> Here's the best I could come up with:
>
> In 2.4.x branch, DefaultRuntimeDir could take an optional additional
> parameter, "full", which means that it applies even to the half-dozen items
> that it didn't apply to in 2.4.0-2.4.6.  Those half-dozen modules in 2.4.x
> that didn't consult ap_runtime_dir_relative() before would check the global
> "full" setting to know whether to start using it like in trunk.  If "full"
> isn't specified, those modules would use the same logic they use in
> 2.4.0-2.4.6.
>

I guess it could instead be a ./configure/cmake option, which distributors
might want to enable if they haven't yet distributed a 2.4[-based] server.
 That would be cleaner implementation-wise but wouldn't be an obvious
choice for current 2.4 users.



> Configure "DefaultRuntimeDir non-default-value full" but don't separately
> configure those half-dozen items, and suddenly the scoreboard file and pid
> and (usually) some less interesting objects move to the "right" place.
>
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