On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 05:42:55PM +0100, Stefan Fritsch wrote: > On Saturday 12 January 2013, Graham Leggett wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > In theory, the -X flag is supposed to cause httpd to run a single > > worker, and not detach or fork. What I'm finding in v2.4 is that > > you mean a single worker process, which may start many threads.
And even with -X under prefork, you may get forked children. Modules can do that, plus things like the glibc nss code can also spawn a thread automagically. Running "httpd -X" outside gdb and then attaching to the child with gdb would show that. Regards, Joe
