Re: [mp2] [PATCH] implement ap_save_brigade

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Dorian Taylor wrote:
>>it'd be nice to run a benchmark. I wonder why ap_save_brigade was marked 
>>as ! in the map file. Which normally means it's not going to be exposed. 
>>Did you by chance look at the archives for possible references to it?
> 
> 
> there's a mention of it in the APR::Bucket manpage. i couldn't find
> anything else aside from a thread on dev@xxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@xxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx/msg22884.html
> 
> and something else i wrote to this list asking about it.
> 
> it's been labeled ! since its initial revision in svn though, apparently.
> 
> perhaps dougm could shed some light?
> 
> i came across the function via
> http://www.outoforder.cc/projects/apache/mod_transform/ , where the
> author uses it to retrieve arbitrary output from what may or may
> not actually be a file on the filesystem. i've been using it to do
> things like feeding subversion PROPFIND responses into xslt processors.

It will work just the same when flattening the data on each request. I'm 
not sure what happens when a filehandle bucket is setaside, but normal 
buckets will be copied, that's why it'd be interesting to see a benchmark 
whether it's a better idea to use that approach.

Joe, do you have any insights on this topic?

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