Clinton, thanks a lot. This is very reassuring, as I have been a heavy user of mod_perl for many years and would like it to continue.
I will keep looking and seeking resolution to my segfault problem. Igor On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Clinton Gormley <cl...@traveljury.com>wrote: > Dear Igor > > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 07:40 -0500, Igor Chudov wrote: > > > After looking at this mailing list and asking a question about > > segfaults, and looking at recent posts, I am beginning to become > > concerned that mod_perl is a dead project. I would like to hear > > whether it has a long term future, which I hope is the case, as I do > > not want to rewrite 70,000+ lines of code! > > It is most certainly not a dead project. While there doesn't appear to > be lots of ongoing development, the reason for that is that mod_perl is > pretty much a done project. > > It does exactly what it needs to do, so changes are only required when > the apache interface changes or a bug is discovered. > > I've been using mod_perl on linux for the past 13 years, and the only > time I've experienced segfaults was when I was trying to open a database > handle in the parent process and use it in the children. > > mod_perl is used by a LOT of big companies, and they wouldn't use it if > it weren't stable and reliable. > > You almost undoubtedly have a problem in your code - at first guess, I'd > look for any code that is trying to share file handles or pipes between > children. > > And follow Adam's advice: > > > > > > Have you read this section of the docmentation on perl.apache.org? > > http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/devel/debug/c.html > > particularly the stuff about generating core dumps and analyzing them > > > regards > > Clint > > >
