For right now, the naming of the MPM methods follows

the following example for the 'prefork' method.

1. The directory name under modules/mpm is the actual

name.

eg: modules/mpm/prefork

2. The internal module name must be that name, prepended with

mpm_ and suffixed with _module

eg: mpm_prefork_module

3. The Makefile.tmpl must create lib<name>.a

eg: libprefork.a

Numbers 1 and 3 follow the normal rules (for example, modules/standard

creates libstandard.a, etc...).

The MPM_METHOD Rule will use the actual name (eg: prefork) to

pick the correct method module to build.

The following MPMs currently exist:

prefork ....... Multi Process Model with Preforking (Apache 1.3)

perchild ...... Multi Process Model with Threading via Pthreads

Constant number of processes, variable number of threads

each child process can have a different uid/gid.

threaded ...... Multi Process Model with Threading via Pthreads

Variable number of processes, constant number of

threads/child (= Apache/pthread)

spmt_os2 ...... Single Process Model with Threading on OS/2

winnt ......... Single Process Model with Threading on Windows NT