6643N/ALast modified at [$Date: 1999/11/04 18:59:39 $]
6643N/A 2.0: In pre-alpha development
6643N/A * Vague goal of an alpha or beta release in 1999. Commit-then-review
6643N/A * Complete HAVE_SENDFILE work. Need to add iovec head and tail pointers to
6643N/A the iol sendfile API and make it work under Unix.
6643N/A Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this
6643N/A * Pipes to CGI scripts are not being timed out
6643N/A Status: Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
6643N/A Status: Paul Reder <rederpj@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
6643N/A Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
6643N/A <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>
6643N/A * Windows NT port isn't done
6643N/A Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on MPM and APR.
6643N/A 1. Add back ability to run Apache as a service
6643N/A 2. Fix Win9* specific code in the winnt MPM
6643N/A 3. Get the MPM working in multi process mode (one parent & one child)
6643N/A 4. Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the native file I/O
6643N/A calls serialize automagically like the CRT calls or do we need to
6643N/A * Current 2.0 code is not tested on many Unix platforms. Make 2.0
6643N/A work on most, if not all the systems 1.3 did
6643N/A Status: Autoconf and APR will get us most of the way there.
6643N/A * The module API is a weird combination of the old table and the new
6643N/A hook system. Switch completely to the new hook system
6643N/A Status: Ben Laurie is working on this.
6643N/ARELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
6643N/A * Win32: Redirect stderr to the error log. This is tougher than it appears
6643N/A because Apache for Windows now uses native file I/O libraries rather than
6643N/A the CRT library. No problem redirecting native I/O STDERR to the error log.
6643N/A However, we need to replace all the fprintf(stderr...) calls with something
6643N/A that will write to the native stderr handle instead of the CRT stderr handle.
6643N/A some code in the Win32 branch that essentially duplicates what is in APR.
6643N/A Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
6643N/A * Move I/O layering into APR.
6643N/A * APR'ize I/O layering. iol is using native sockets now, which is the source of
6643N/A the double close problem Manoj ran into.
6643N/A * There are still a number of places in the code where we are loosing error
6643N/A status (
i.e. throwing away the error returned by a system call and replacing
6643N/A it with a generic error code)
6643N/A * APRize the stat function. CRT stat() is about 30% slower on Windows than
6643N/A the equivalent native Windows call. The APR call should return the Unix
6643N/A style stat structure, just to keep it familier.
6643N/A * Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
6643N/A Status: Bill <stoddard@raleigh.ibm.com> has prototype code (not reliable) in 1.3.
6643N/A Should be much cleaner with APR in 2.0.
6643N/A * Switch to autoconf, et al. for configuration.
6643N/A * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
6643N/A Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@raleigh.ibm.com> is working on this.
6643N/A * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
6643N/A are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
6643N/AOther bugs that need fixing:
6643N/A * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
6643N/A Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
6643N/A * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
6643N/A Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
6643N/A behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
6643N/A * Areas where APRFile is being used need to be cleaned-up
6643N/A * SIGSEGV on Linux seems to only kill a thread, not a whole process;
6643N/A we need to work around this, probably by bouncing the signal to
6643N/A the sigwait thread. But this will hurt debugability.
6643N/AOther features that need writing:
6643N/A * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
6643N/A * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
6643N/A * Odd comments in source (egrep for "ZZZ") need to be cleaned-up
6643N/A * Work on other MPMs. Possible MPMs discussed or in progress include:
6643N/A - Zach Brown's <zab@zabbo.net> Linux siginfo MPM
6643N/ADocumentation that needs writing:
6643N/A * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
6643N/A * New directives in the various MPMs
6643N/A Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
6643N/A * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
6643N/A which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
6643N/A committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
6643N/A does not show the contents of new files until later.
6643N/A * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
6643N/A Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
6643N/A * What do we do about mod_proxy?
6643N/A * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?