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(Trying again after hitting the wrong key in netscape and losing it all! I'll try to remember the gist of it.)

I like reading diary entries, but it would be nice to have a view of diary entries just from folks associated with specified projects. It can be fun to read random diary entries, but it is truly useful to read entries from other folks working on Apache. I don't know of an effecient way to get to such entries.

We communicate all the time on mailing lists, but these diary entries give a different angle on the person and what they are doing. We don't exactly clutter up the mailing list with drivel like this.

At the moment I'm working on replacing the BO_BYTECT usage... It is trivial to improve on the current situation (BO_BYTECT usage is broken since we use buff for so little of our data transfer now), but it is non-trivial to match the same semantics of BO_BYTECT in 1.3. With 2.0, output data can be held at any filter... With 1.3, output data is either held in buff or has already been sent, so it was trivial to account for it either way.

(Uninteresting details, huh?)

I've been trying to assist David in his efforts to add IPv6 and UDP support to APR by reviewing patches. I hope I haven't held him up too much. I realize that I've been a pest :)

Okay, time to press the button and go get Sonya ready for school (stealing some hot coffee along the way)...

I'm letting the caffiene sink in and wondering what to work on this a.m. and I log into my BSD box to make sure Apache 2.0 regression tests are still humming and I notice that the configure script started failing at 2:18 a.m. EDT. I wonder if that would have anything to do with some commits last night :) There was a commit right before the previous successful BSD regression build/run and a commit right afterwards. It looks like there is autoconf/m4 debugging to do this a.m. because the configure script bails out. (I would guess initially that it wasn't broken by rbb's commit last night. It seems that APRVARS stopped getting built at the right time at some point in the last few days.) But first to get Sonya to school...

Apache 2.0 thoughts of the moment:

Nagging question of the week: why doesn't 2.0 run smoothly on FreeBSD 3.4 for me?

Old observations from a couple of weeks back: mpmt_pthread and prefork seem to run fine; dexter hangs intermittently in select(), which never pops even though one or both conditions (readability, timeout) have been met; I imagined that there was some sick interaction between Apache and the FreeBSD user-land thread implementation

New observation: various flavors seem to hang intermittently in unknown code; truss refuses to attach to any of the children; more data required

Other issues to work on before too long:

• ab needs to do the connect() in non-blocking mode
• Commit fix to ap_sendfile() for when no header/trailer structure is provided.
• Get ap_sendfile() working with APR_SO_TIMEOUT.
• Test a few MPM flavors on Solaris x86 and OS/390; I haven't played there since returning from the beach.

Other silly stuff:

• Advagato: How do I add myself to list of developers associated with the Apache project?
• Real life: Figure out why Liam doesn't want to go to sleep at night; this is spoiling my favorite coding time :)