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Bug-fix needed to compile Apache-0.8.11 under Linux-1.0.9 +... (fwd)
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> From cmhung@insti.physics.sunysb.edu Fri Sep 8 18:32:23 1995
> Message-Id: <m0srEl4-0001NdC@max.physics.sunysb.edu>
> Date: Fri, 8 Sep 95 21:31 EDT
> From: cmhung@insti.physics.sunysb.edu (Chi Ming Hung)
> To: apache-bugs@apache.org
> Subject: Bug-fix needed to compile Apache-0.8.11 under Linux-1.0.9 +...
>
> Hi, I'd like to report that the Apache-0.8.11 source available at sunsite
> and at www.apache.org won't compile out of the box for Linux-1.0.9. The
> compile did go through, but when I ran httpd, it won't accept any connections.
> The problem seems to be in src/http_main.c:
>
> listen(sd, 512)
> ^^^
>
> 512 is too large, according to the manual, the upper limit seems to be 5 (?).
> I changed 512 to 5 and recompiled, and everything's fine, except:
>
> It seems that sometimes the login entry in the access_log got mixed up.
> This happens when two identd calls are too close to each other and the
> entries got switched, or maybe the variable holding the result of identd
> isn't cleared. The result is that some login entries which should read
> "unknown" will show the previous login from another host instead.
>
> Hope this helps in the further development of Apache, and please keep up
> the good work!
>
> Ming.