STATUS revision 86d5a4d237c68be4fa5974290063c740a01220b1
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327sliveApache 2.0 STATUS:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327sliveLast modified at [$Date: 2000/07/09 17:28:16 $]
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive 2.0a5 : ???
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive 2.0a4 : released June 7, 2000
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive 2.0a3 : released April 28, 2000
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive 2.0a2 : released March 31, 2000
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive 2.0a1 : released March 10, 2000
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327sliveRELEASE SHOWSTOPPERS:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Get mod_auth_digest working under win32
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive - APR_HAS_RANDOM should be defined on windows and there is a
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive lib/apr/misc/win32/rand.c which is basically a copy of what
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive mod_auth_digest used to use.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * suEXEC doesn't work
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Manoj has posted an patch to fix this.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive <19991103003605.A20612@samosa.mindspring.com>
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Enable the Windows MPM to honor max_requests_per_child
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Bill will fix this.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Get Apache working on Windows 95/98. The following work
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive (at least) needs to be done:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive - winnt MPM: Fix 95/98 code paths in the winnt MPM. There is some NT
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive specific code that is still not in NT only code paths
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive - IOL binds to APR sendfile, implemented with TransmitFile, which
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive is not available on 95/98.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Test access logging with multiple threads. Will the
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive native file I/O calls serialize automagically like the
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive CRT calls or do we need to add region locking each time
8e3ff39cc6fe48e65a920cbc1dcbe30ca9db688dslive we access the logs?
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Complete the revamp the service environment and relocation
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive into the WinNT MPM. Changes ServerRoot service registry
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive parameter into ConfigArgs for multiple service startup parameters.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Problems to fix in the revamp: -k shutdown/restart are broken,
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive signals are not being acknowledged. Close window and shutdown
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive also seem out of sorts.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive OtherBill is working on this
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: fix build/run time environment to remove ApacheCore.dll
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * We need a thread-safe resolver, at least on Unix.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: The best known candidate would be something from
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Greg asks, "why? doesn't gethostbyname_r() handle this?"
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Modify mod_cgi and mod_cgid to deal with directories. This allows
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive a lot of directives to be removed from the core.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327sliveRELEASE NON-SHOWSTOPPERS BUT WOULD BE REAL NICE TO WRAP THESE UP:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * OS/2: Get loadable modules working again. Requires shared core support
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive which doesn't appear to be catered for in the current build system.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * OS/2: Make mod_status work for spmt_os2 MPM.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Build scripts do not recognise AIX 4.2.1 pthreads, so the
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive pthread MPMs will not build.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Reuse accept socket after transmitfile/close
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive This is not a bug, but would be nice to get this feature in
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive before ship.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Enable the winnt MPM to use the new scoreboard API
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Implement ap_shm_ functions in APR.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Win9x console window still won't play nice with the
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive close window, logoff and shutdown scenarios.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Add a simple hold console open patch (wait for close or
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive the ESC key, with a nice message) if the server died a bad
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive death (non-zero exit code) in console mode.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Platforms that do not support fork (primarily Win32 and AS/400)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Consider introducing HAVE_FORK feature macro. Architect start-up code
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive that avoids initializing all the modules in the parent process on
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive platforms that do not support fork.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Clean the code. There are a lot of places we used APR but didn't
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive remove the hacks that were required for the cross-platform code in
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive 1.3. We need to make the code look like APR was supposed to be there.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Go throught the 1.3 Bug DB and research the bugs marked "suspended".
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive People were told these would be considered for inclusion in Apache 2.0,
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive it would be nice to actually do so.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Migrate the MPM over to use APR thread/process calls. This
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive would eliminate some code in the Win32 branch that essentially
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive duplicates what is in APR.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Bill says we need a new procattr, APR_CREATE_SUSPENDED (or
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive something similar) to direct ap_create_process to create the
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive process suspended. We also need a call to wake up the suspended
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive process This may not be able to be implemented everywhere though.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Move I/O layering into APR.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * There are still a number of places in the code where we are
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive loosing error status (i.e. throwing away the error returned by a
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive system call and replacing it with a generic error code)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Win32: Implement reliable piped logs on Windows
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Use APR to get rid of more platform dependancies.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Ryan Bloom <rbb@covalenet.net> is working on this.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * The connection status table is not very efficient. Also, very few stats
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive are exported to the connection status table (easy to fix), and mod_status
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Mass vhosting version of suEXEC.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Replace tables with a proper opaque ADT that has pluggable
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive implementations (including something like the existing data type,
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive plus hash tables for speed, with options for more later).
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: fanf is working on this.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * configuration option to use *DBM
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * add SDBM into src/lib/sdbm/ as a default/fallback DBM implementation.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive SDBM is used by Perl, mod_dav, mod_sssl, others for basic DBM support.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Greg +1 (volunteers)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Integrate mod_dav.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Message-id: <20000625173247.M29590@lyra.org>
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: works. passes initial regression testing. Joe Orton
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive reports success with his "cadaver" tool.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Some additional items remaining:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive - case_preserved_filename stuff
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive - turn dav/fs/ into a true module; remove existing config hackery
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive - fix and re-enable sdbm_lock.c
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive - move LimitXMLRequestBody, add ap_get_limit_xml_body()
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive - find a new home for ap_text(_header)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive - is it possible to remove the DAV: namespace stuff from util_xml?
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * ap_core_translate() and its use by mod_mmap_static are a bit wonky.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive The function should probably be exposed as a utility function (such
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive as ap_translate_url2fs() or ap_validate_fs_url() or something).
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Another approach would be a new hook phase after "translate" which
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive would allow mod_mmap_static to munge what the translation has
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive decided to do.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Ryan +1
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Go through ap_config.h and namespace-protect the symbols (e.g. USE_*).
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Some symbols can/should move to mpm_common.h where possible.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Explore use of a post-config hook for the code in http_main.c which
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive calls ap_fixup_virutal_hosts(), ap_fini_vhost_config(), and
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive ap_sort_hooks() [to reduce the logic in main()]
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * read the config tree just once, and process N times (as necessary)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * add a version number to ap_initialize() as an extra failsafe against
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive (APR) library version skew.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive MsgID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005231712380.31927-100000@nebula.lyra.org>
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Greg +1 (volunteers), Jeff +1, Ryan +1, Tony -0(?)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * mod_info to use the configuration tree
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * add output filtering
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Greg's patch:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive MsgID: <20000701162857.D29590@lyra.org> (patch)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive MsgID: <20000704025038.V29590@lyra.org> (demo)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Greg +1, Jim +1(?), Dirk -0, Ryan -0
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Ryan's patch:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive MsgID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007072059120.18877-100000@koj.rkbloom.net>
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Dirk +1, Ryan +1
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive note: alternate patch will be sent, which replaces hooks with
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive an alternative solution
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327sliveOther bugs that need fixing:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * MaxRequestsPerChild measures connections, not requests.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Until someone has a better way, we'll probably just rename it
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive "MaxConnectionsPerChild".
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Regex containers don't work in an intutive way
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: No one has come up with an efficient way to fix this
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive behavior. Dean has suggested getting rid of regex containers
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive completely.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * SIGSEGV on Linux (glibc 2.1.2) isn't caught properly by a
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive sigwaiting thread. We need to work around this, perhaps unless
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive there is hope soon for a fixed glibc.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * The mod_cgid daemon process isn't always cleaned up when httpd
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive gets SIGTERM. Jeff thinks it may be as simple as registering
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive the daemon process for cleanup with the proper pool, but he hasn't
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive looked at it in enough detail.
8e3ff39cc6fe48e65a920cbc1dcbe30ca9db688dslive * The MM library is built as static and shared library. This should
8e3ff39cc6fe48e65a920cbc1dcbe30ca9db688dslive be set up to build only the required version.
8e3ff39cc6fe48e65a920cbc1dcbe30ca9db688dsliveOther features that need writing:
8e3ff39cc6fe48e65a920cbc1dcbe30ca9db688dslive * Finish infrastructure in core for async MPMs
8e3ff39cc6fe48e65a920cbc1dcbe30ca9db688dslive Status: post 2.0
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * TODO in source -- just do an egrep on "TODO" and see what's there
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327sliveDocumentation that needs writing:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Mod_status docs are needed.
8e3ff39cc6fe48e65a920cbc1dcbe30ca9db688dslive * The concept of MPMs, especially if we ship more than one MPM for a
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive given platform
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * New directives in the various MPMs and appropriate links from
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive obsolete directives in core.html to the MPM documentation.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Revise manual/stopping.html and the last part of
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive manual/misc/perf-tuning.html to take account of the MPMs.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * API documentation
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: Ben Laurie has written some hooks documentation
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Changes since 1.3.9 can be more easily seen in the commitlog file
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive dev.apache.org:/home/cvs/CVSROOT/commitlogs/apache-2.0
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive which includes some of Roy's comments when the changes were
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive committed in rough change-sets by purpose. Note that the commitlog
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive does not show the contents of new files until later.
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * mod_dav documentation (once integrated)
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327sliveAvailable Patches:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Mike Abbott's <mja@trudge.engr.sgi.com> patches to improve
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive performance
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive Status: These were written for 1.3, and are awaiting a port to
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Jim Winstead's <jimw@trainedmonkey.com> patch to add CookieDomain and
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive other small mod_usertrack features
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327sliveOpen issues:
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * What do we do about mod_proxy?
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Which MPMs will be included with Apache 2.0?
c3b8fe2327e10aafbf419315dca8a683c1974327slive * Is conf/highperformance.conf-dist obsolete? It looks obsolete.