On Wed, Jul 28, 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Full_Name: Matthias Loepfe
> Version: 2.3.9
> OS: Solaris 2.6
> Submission from: (NULL) (193.192.235.3)
>
> I'm not sure if the following is realy seen as a bug, but I think it
> is one.
>
> If I use the following Option:
>
> 'SSLRandomSeed startup exec:bin/truerand 16'
>
> The process which get spawned has no command line arguments. This lets
> the truerand produce randomnumbers till it cannot write any more to
> stdout (EPIPE). This terminates the truerand and the parent process
> gets the exit condition and logs it - which I feel is not elegant.
>
> I tried to circument it by the following Option which does not work:
>
> 'SSLRandomSeed startup exec:"bin/truerand 16" 16
>
> There are two solutions:
>
> 1. catch the SIG_PIPE in truerand
> 2. pass the number of expected bytes as a command line arg
Or 3. use a wrapper:
#!/bin/sh
exec truerand 16
That's how such external programs are usually expected in Apache to look. But
nevertheless your suggestion isn't silly, of course. I'll look inside the
code, perhaps there is an easy and non-kludge solution.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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