After Apache httpd 2.4.10 is released, I’ll push out a new release of these modules.
The most critical issue resolved in the next release is a problem mod_whatkilledus has with tracking the active request when using the Event MPM. It doesn’t notice when the Event MPM maps the request to a different thread while processing the response, so the request which triggered the crash could be misidentified. By using a new web server API I added to httpd 2.4.10, mod_whatkilledus now notices when request processing moves across threads.
Other useful changes in the next release:
- Windows: Support 64-bit builds, and add the option of disabling the system pop-up error handling dialog after a child process crash, which allows the server to automatically recover and handle new clients. (An alternative to this httpd-specific setting is a Windows registry setting; it has more capabilities, such as enabling a user dump, but it affects all applications.)
- Linux, FreeBSD, OS X: Optionally use libunwind, for better backtraces in some circumstances.
Strangely, libunwind’s unw_step() returns no stack frames in 32-bit builds on OS X, returning 0 on the first call. I didn’t encounter any issues with 64-bit builds. (This is with the libunwind APIs in the system library in both Lion and Mavericks, not with libunwind built from source.)