Patches in high visibility places
Posted 2005-06-04-1052
I have a patch in Apache. Ok, so yes it will end up in apache, but it is actually in APR, the Apache Portable Runtime. And ok, it's not actually in the code that runs anything...
I submitted a patch, and had it accepted into APR for fixing the configuration test for SCTP. Well... actually my patch only makes two headers be included that makes the test suceed when it should instead of always failing.
The problem is that even with this patch applied, and changing the apache server itself to use SCTP, it still doesn't work. I will probably have another look at the (older) version I downloaded from someone else to see if I missed something. I suspect that apache trys to half close the connection, and since SCTP doesn't allow that, the whole connection is closed before any data is sent from apache. Not good. Forturnately, I don't need (or rather, can't use) apache for my masters project - this whole exercise was just to make sure that SCTP as running and works.
Now I need to start coding my video streaming server and client