>Number: 3414 >Category: mod_cgi >Synopsis: Impossible to spawn a child process in the background from a >CGI >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Wed Nov 18 00:40:00 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: v1.3.3 >Environment: Solaris v2.5.1 >Description: While trying to trigger a subprocess that takes two hours to complete from a CGI program in C, it was discovered that as soon as the parent CGI process exits having forked the subprocess as a child, Apache kills the child, and thus the two hour subprocess.
This seems to be done to prevent runaway CGIs, however there does not seem to be a configurable workaround for this should this functionality be needed. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: Provide a configurable workaround on a per script or per directory basis >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ] [If you do not include this Cc, your reply may be ig- ] [nored unless you are responding to an explicit request ] [from a developer. ] [Reply only with text; DO NOT SEND ATTACHMENTS! ]
