Re: pkg/39713

[Matthias Scheler <tron%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/39713; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>
Cc: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: pkg/39713
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:20:25 +0000

 On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 10:35:02AM +0000, Roy Marples wrote:
 >  The problem is that neither httpd nor apachectl bother to block a race
 >  condition when starting or stopping.
 >  
 >  rc.subr already has nice code to handle this, so lets just skip
 >  apachectl all together and handle httpd like every other daemon.
 >  
 >  The startssl directive no longer works with apache22, so lets remove
 >  that comment also.
 >  
 >  The patch below makes everything work nicely and a lot more simple :)
 
 That patch below will break support for platforms which don't have
 "/etc/rc.subr" available. This would be a major regression for users
 of these platforms.
 
        Kind regards
 
 -- 
 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/