Re: [RFC] Apache Privilege Separation for WebDAV (now against 2.2.6)

2007-12-22 Thread Michael Clark
Michael Clark wrote: * A stackable performance statistics vfs module implementation that does timings on filesystem io calls. BTW I did some timings on linux for the wrapped apr_stat unix socket sendmsg/recvmsg ping/pong calls to the privsep process and a OS cached stat was about 22

Re: [RFC] Apache Privilege Separation for WebDAV (now against 2.2.6)

2007-12-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Michael Clark wrote: Paul Querna wrote: How you stubbed out the file io seems fine for the lifetime of 2.2.x and maybe 2.4.x, but in the long run, I believe we need to support some kind of VFS layer, to make all IO pluggable. (open file, directory listing, etc etc). Directory listings in

Re: [RFC] Apache Privilege Separation for WebDAV (now against 2.2.6)

2007-12-19 Thread Paul Querna
Michael Clark wrote: Hi Folks, I posted a note about my privilege separation patches the other day and received some good private help/feedback, and have now made the patches a considerable amount more portable and they are using apr much more extensively. The patch is now fully modular and

Re: [RFC] Apache Privilege Separation for WebDAV (now against 2.2.6)

2007-12-19 Thread Michael Clark
Paul Querna wrote: Michael Clark wrote: Hi Folks, I posted a note about my privilege separation patches the other day and received some good private help/feedback, and have now made the patches a considerable amount more portable and they are using apr much more extensively. The patch is now

Re: [RFC] Apache Privilege Separation for WebDAV (now against 2.2.6)

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Clark
FYI Michael Clark wrote: http://oss.metaparadigm.com/apache-privsep/2.3.0-dev/mod_privsep-2.3.0-0.2.patch The module proper, implements the privsep privileged operation process that listens on a unix socket for privileged operations and performs them on behalf of the unprivileged apache

[RFC] Apache Privilege Separation for WebDAV (now against 2.2.6)

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Clark
Hi Folks, I posted a note about my privilege separation patches the other day and received some good private help/feedback, and have now made the patches a considerable amount more portable and they are using apr much more extensively. The patch is now fully modular and allows mod_privsep to be

Re: [RFC] Apache Privilege Separation for WebDAV (now against 2.2.6)

2007-12-11 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Michael Clark wrote: Hi Folks, I posted a note about my privilege separation patches the other day and received some good private help/feedback, and have now made the patches a considerable amount more portable and they are using apr much more extensively. Cool stuff! I'll start reviewing

Re: [RFC] Apache Privilege Separation for WebDAV (now against 2.2.6)

2007-12-11 Thread Michael Clark
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Michael Clark wrote: Hi Folks, I posted a note about my privilege separation patches the other day and received some good private help/feedback, and have now made the patches a considerable amount more portable and they are using apr much more extensively. Cool