[Phpwiki-talk] stability update

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Reini Urban schrieb:
> Reini Urban schrieb:
>> John Cole schrieb:
>>> Reini,
>>>   I'll bring up the latest cvs version on a test machine and try it out.
>>>
>>>   Reini, your doing a whole lot of work right now ;-) and I'm sure 
>>> everyone,
>>> expecially me, appreciate it.  When do you think things will settle down
>>> enough for you to start working towards a new release?
>>
>>
>>
>> As soon as I have fixed the fatals and am on the same stability level 
>> as the release before.
>> (say apache2, cgi, php5 must not crash. login must work ok. iis and 
>> better utf-8 support as bonus)
>>
>> Currently I'm investigating problems with application/xhtml+xml, which 
>> brings out some problematic XHTML code in the templates.
> 
> This is done.
> php5 and CGI and apache2 works fine again.
> Apache2 with USE_PATH_INFO=true or auto works fine with "AcceptPathInfo 
> on".
> 
> Session crashes on overlarge session objects have also been fixed. 
> Anybody knows the number of how large such a session object may be? 
> Reading an overlarge object leads to immediate crashes.
> 
> The most important remaining fatals are now:
> 
> 1) ConvertOldMarkup()
>    php crash on formatting the 2nd paragraph of OldTextFormattingRules,
>    AnciennesR%E8glesDeFormatage, ...
> A complicated anchored regex which crashes in the 2nd loop.
> We really should check/sanify the allowed regexp's a bit, since admins 
> and even users (InterWikiMap) can easily destroy them.

Status: added some debugging code to exclude certain regex to narrow the 
search.

> 2) PageList memory exhaustion on large pagesets
>    (e.g. PhpWikiDemo:en/AllPages)
> This is probably due to WikiDB caching on simple pagelist iterations, 
> which shouldn't be done.

Status: fixed, needs testing.

3) php crash at some template expansion, if just logged in.
    Status: no guess in which expansion yet...

I committed my current status with these remaining problem to CVS now.
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Reini Urban
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