[JIRA] Commented: (SSPCPP-446) Try moving child_init hooks in Apache 2.x modules to post_config

[Scott Cantor (JIRA)]

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Scott Cantor commented on SSPCPP-446:
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The problem with using post_config is that the module spins up background threads for config monitoring and cache cleanup, and the child process fork omits them since only the main thread is copied.

I think it would take a new set of APIs to manage child process forking and split those thread creation events into separate API calls that would happen in child_init. That's quite Apache specific, so there's no support for that.

But moving the hook does fix the logging permissions problem, so it would be really nice to somehow preserve that benefit.

> Try moving child_init hooks in Apache 2.x modules to post_config
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>                 Key: SSPCPP-446
>                 URL: https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/SSPCPP-446
>             Project: Shibboleth SP - C++
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Web Server Modules
>            Reporter: Scott Cantor
>            Assignee: Scott Cantor
>             Fix For: 2.5
>
>   Original Estimate: 1 day
>          Time Spent: 1 hour, 30 minutes
>  Remaining Estimate: 6 hours, 30 minutes
>
> Moving child_init to post_config may be more efficient and could solve the permissions mess with native.log. Not sure it will work, needs to be tested.

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