Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: [squid-users] Update: #redirectors decays overtime]]

On 22 Aug 2001 19:30:59 +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> On 22 Aug 2001 10:52:12 +0200, Mike Kiernan wrote:
> > Robert,
> >
> > This leaves me with a few questions:
> >
> > - why is the default to use sockets rather than pipes
> > for local ipc ?? [I come from solaris where normally
> > you'd switch from sockets to doors on the local box]
>
> No comment :]. It's been like this since I starting hacking on bits of
> squid - that was nearly 18 months ago. There are comments in the code
> about OSF/1 and poll() and FIFO's being bad bad bad. In fact IPC doesn't
> default to sockets - redirector IPC defaulted to sockets. Other IPC
> using bits of squid have other defaults, including diskd - which is
> quite heavy on load :} that looks like
> #if HAVE_POLL && defined(_SQUID_OSF_)
> /* pipes and poll() don't get along on DUNIX -DW */
> IPC_TCP_SOCKET,
> #else
> IPC_FIFO,
> #endif
>

I've submitted a change like this to the redirector code for squid-head.

Rob
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 03:33:16 MDT