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Bug#634242: [apache2-mpm-prefork] please clarify description ("pre-forking")



Package: apache2-mpm-prefork
Version: 2.2.19-1
Severity: wishlist

The prefork MPM is described this way:

The prefork MPM provides a non-threaded, pre-forking implementation
that handles requests in a manner similar to Apache 1.3.

To me that's not so clear. "prefork" may be a good system name, but "pre-forking" is not very explicit to me. Furthermore, telling me that it handles requests in a manner similar to Apache 1.3 really doesn't help me (I reckon a few people probably know what that means). I would suggest:

The prefork MPM provides a non-threaded implementation that forks new processes in advance, before the arrival of the requests they will handle.
A link to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/prefork.html or http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mpm.html may be a good idea.



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