Once upon a time Dave Rolsky shaped the electrons to say...
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Daniel Sully wrote:
>
> > server. It handles failover from dead app instances, however not very
> > well, and is a big pile of C code. It also has problems in that because
> > Apache is not multithreaded, one child copy of that adaptor that has
> > marked an app instance as dead can't let another child know about that
> > dead instance.
>
> You could use an IPC or DBM file (assuming you have 1 apache machine) to
> communicate this info. With multiple webservers, you'd need a database or
> NFS or something.
That would be a no. Socket communication only. Shared filesystems in
production are bad, mmkay.
-D
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