Specifically ... I am looking at the httpd and python and pyexpat used in CentOS 4 ... I get this:

===== [root@v20z-x86-64 ~]# python Python 2.3.4 (#1, Dec 11 2007, 05:28:55) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import pyexpat

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pyexpat.version_info

(1, 95, 7)

[root@v20z-x86-64 ~]# ldd /usr/sbin/httpd | grep expat libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0 (0x0000002a95dba000)

[root@v20z-x86-64 ~]# strings /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0 | grep expat_ expat_1.95.7 =====

So, it does not seem that Apache or Python or pyexpat that comes standard in CentOS-4 has this issue.

quite right -

# /usr/sbin/lsof -p 19836 | grep expat httpd 19836 root mem REG 8,3 123496 2792038 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0

# strings /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0 | grep expat libexpat.so.0 expat_1.95.7

# python Python 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 11 2006, 06:18:43) [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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import pyexpat pyexpat.version_info

(1, 95, 7)

so i am a little confused as so why i'm seeing this now, i may kick my developer a bit to see if this is really what i am seeing

thanks