Bug 50350

Summary:	unusual behavior of httpd with no -k
Product:	Apache httpd-2	Reporter:	Eric Covener <covener>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Apache HTTPD Bugs Mailing List <bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	FixedInTrunk
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.5-HEAD
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Eric Covener 2010-11-27 15:17:34 UTC

when httpd is invoked without any -k option, mpm_common never registers ap_signal_server, which causes main() in server/main.c to continue through to startup-style processing without trying to look for an old pidfile.

e.g.

apachectl -f conf/httpd.conf
sleep 2
apachectl -f conf/httpd.conf


vs. any of the normal forms (single apachectl positional argument, or trailing -k start). 

Possible solutions would be to treat lack of -k arg even more like "start" and register signal_server, or blow up in the rewrite args hook (and check its return value) when no -k at all is present (maybe this in trunk?).

Comment 1 Eric Covener 2010-11-28 19:12:43 UTC

r1039989 in trunk checks the pidfile when this implied -k start is being used.

Comment 2 Eric Covener 2010-12-04 07:52:10 UTC

not backporting