On Tue, Oct 12, 1999, Martin Kraemer wrote:
> The method to exit from apache when mm cannot open the semaphore file
> (e.g., because of permission problems) seems rather drastic to me:
>
> main/alloc.c:628:
> if ((mm = ap_mm_create(mm_size, mm_path)) == NULL) {
> fprintf(stderr, "Ouch! ap_mm_create(%d, \"%s\") failed\n", mm_size,
>mm_path);
> err1 = ap_mm_error();
> if (err1 == NULL)
> err1 = "-unknown-";
> err2 = strerror(errno);
> if (err2 == NULL)
> err2 = "-unknown-";
> fprintf(stderr, "Error: MM: %s: OS: %s\n", err1, err2);
> -------> abort();
> exit(1);
> }
>
> I would prefer if the program would simply exit with an unsuccessful
> exit code after printing the error message.
Ok, I've removed the abort() for mod_ssl 2.4.6
> PS: are there more abort()s hidden in there? In alloc.c, there are many
> of the assert() class ("this must *NEVER* happen" type of errors), most
> of them wrapped in #ifdef POOL_DEBUG. But ordinary permission problems
> should definitely NOT trigger an abort().
There are more abort()s, but not from me (EAPI), of course.
I usually use abort() only in special situations...
Ralf S. Engelschall
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