Apache 1.3.33 Released

harmgsn writes "Following the release of Apache 1.3.32, the Apache Group released Apache 1.3.33 to fix a security flaw in mod_include and in the Content-Length field. The official announcement is available as well as the ChangeLog for the 1.3.x series."

Comments

Re:What ever

[myg]

Apache 2 has quite a few good things going for it over Apache 1. First off, it handles multi-threading much better meaning that very heavy workloads require less CPU time[*]

Second, Apache 2 supports things like DAV which mean that to publish information on the web users need less access than with Apache 1 (such as shell accounts or worse FTP, since most ISP's don't think users should use SSH for some odd reason).

Lastly, Apache 2 can run Subversion. So not only can you use DAV to update information without shell access of any kind but you can version that information too.

[*] Why is multi-threading faster than the pre-fork model of Apache 1? Because there is less work to do when context-switching threads. A thread shares the same virtual address space with other threads in the process. Changing virtual address spaces is slow because it requires a TLB flush (as well as one or more extra registers to save). The TLB flush increases memory accesses.

Re:How

[Goonie]

Sure, no one has found any bugs Knuth's TeX in years.

Knuth is a freak of nature who spent eight years writing a program on his own, largely for his own edification and completely free of commercial pressure. Few others have that freakish ability, fewer still get to work on their pet project by themselves for that long before offering it to the world. So there are limits to how many lessons can be drawn from this very unusual example.